Greater Power Quotes:

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.162, Penguin

topic: Lessons, Things Change, Greater Power

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Bye, Rejection, Greater Power

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Zest, World, Greater Power

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

- Dan Brown

topic: Men, Greater Power, Greater

Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Simple, Complicated, Greater Power

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Letting Go, Spiritual, Letting Things Go, Love And Letting Go

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love Freedom, True Peace

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Love, Artist, Power, Musician Love, Greater Power

Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Technology, Past, Government, Center Of Gravity, Greater Power

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

- Paul Epworth

topic: Song, People, Language, Greater Power

Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.

- Richard Shusterman

topic: Philosophy, Skills, Medicine, Knowledge Of The World, Efficacy

The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.

- Leon Trotsky

topic: Powerful, Europe, Foundation, Greater Power

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.186, Library of America

topic: Simple, Ideas, Mind, Greater Power

Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

topic: Girl, Power, Opportunity, Harpies, Greater Power

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.

- Louis Sullivan

topic: Real, Love Is, Two, Inversions, Greater Power

If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.

- Tibor R. Machan

source: Tibor R. Machan (1995). “Private Rights and Public Illusions”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

topic: Equality, Order, Law, Greater Power

There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Unconditional Love, Heaven, Earth, Greater Power

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrqp every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed.

- Rhonda Byrne

topic: Love, Feelings, Would Be, Babylon, Frequency

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: ...

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Sight, Consciousness, Thinker, Greater Power, Seers

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

- Sun Bin

topic: Guarantees, Resources, Superiority, Tactical, Greater Power

Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Lying, Challenges, World, Greater Power

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

- Thomas Aquinas

source: Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: God”

topic: Perfect, Agents, Causes, Divine Power, Greater Power

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.952, 谷月社

topic: Height, Infinite, Divine, Greater Power

You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Forever, Break, Traps, Greater Power

Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.

- Diadochos of Photiki

topic: Christian, Taken, Dwelling Place, Captives, Peace Of Soul

I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart is on my sleeve. It's not comfortable but...I am an artist so it's useful and my friends are used to me getting teary at any moment. So, it just runs through me and I know it will continue to, but my best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.

- Kristin Bauer van Straten

topic: Running, Moving, Blessed, Grounding, Greater Power

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

- Ovid

source: Ovid (1960). “The Metamorphoses”, Signet

topic: Heart, Hands, Mind, Greater Power

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Silence, Mind, Depth, Greater Power

There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very shadowy places. You're going to learn things about yourself that you'll wish you didn't know. There are monsters in there-monsters you can't control-but trying to keep them hidden will only give them greater power.

- Parker J. Palmer

topic: Journey, Giving, Wish, Inner Journey, Greater Power

I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

- Lynne Stewart

topic: People, Leader, Revolution, Greater Power

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

- Charles Colson

topic: Writing, Imagination, Fiction, Greater Power

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

- Robert Redford

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, Feelings, Noise, Greater Power

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

- Hillary DePiano

topic: Laughter, Laughing, World, Greater Power

The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman...

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

source: "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book X, Chapter I, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

topic: Intelligent, Hands, Differences, Workmen, Greater Power

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

- Sophocles

topic: Hands, Opinion, Greater Power

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

- Richard Branson

topic: Destiny, People, Giving, Greater Power

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

- J. Michael Straczynski

topic: Learning, Army, Government, Power Government, Invaders

In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Healing, Vegetables, Medicine, Potency, Greater Power

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

- Roger McDonald

topic: Believe, Tunes, Want, Greater Power

History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.

- Massad Ayoob

topic: Believe, Gun, Mind, Greater Power

I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended that any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers than another in marking out the limits of the powers of the several departments.

- James Madison

source: James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

topic: Government, Law, Principles, Greater Power, Separation Of Powers

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Sex, Men, Injustice, Libel, Greater Power

We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

- John A. Byrne

topic: Fall, Believe, Games, Shareholders, Meritocracy

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

- Baruch Spinoza

source: Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.73, Open Road Media

topic: Mind, Emotion, Subjects, Greater Power

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

- John Boyd Orr

topic: Years, Fifty, Lasts, Forces Of Nature, Previous Years

There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

- Leonard Jacobson

source: Hillary DePiano, Carlo Gozzi (2003). “The Love Of Three Oranges: A Play For The Theatre That Takes The Commedia Dell'arte Of Carlo Gozzi And Updates It For The New Millennium”, p.77, Priced Nostalgia Press

topic: Overcoming, Resistance, Power Of Love, Greater Power

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

- Walter Lang

topic: Angel, Humans, Greater Power

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

- Linus Pauling

topic: Military, Believe, Evil, Humanitarianism, Greater Power

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

topic: Greater Power