Best power & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.”

Hands Ability Power Path Structure Occult Sentient Beings Ability To Change

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.”

Hands Waiting Brain Power Arms Picks Fortune Ties Steel Powerless Fists Wrists

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.”

Hands Power Guilty Limitation Strict

Book:Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke

Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke

“Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.”

Hands Reality Class Power Groups Particular Perspective Prisms

Author:Sheila Rowbotham

“The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.”

Way Feels Firsts Hands Walks Power Doors Advantage Privilege Granted Gestures Empowered Disadvantages Framed Arbiter Upper Hand Magnanimous

Book:That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships

Source: That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships

“My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.”

Children Ends Hands Bigs Running Used Mother Nations Brain Boys Power Heard Right Now Sticks

Author:Jane Jacobs

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.”

Hands Power Source Fool Tyranny Knaves

Book:A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait

Source: A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.”

Humans Whole Hands Politics Power Records Rights Written Mankind Human Nature Sacred Divinity Volume Sunbeams

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.”

Believe Hands Individual Powerful Power Fate Groups Members Raised Cohesion Disunity

Book:Doing Sixty & Seventy

Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy

“In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.”

People Life Needs Facts Hands Creativity Power Live Life

Author:Albert Camus

“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”

Ifs Use Hands Suffering Order Dies Justice Power Sun East Firm Diminish Astonishing Sun Set

Author:Albert Camus

“Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving May Doe Hands Power Knowing Illusion Thoughtful Our Thoughts Whim

Author:Marcel Proust

“All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.”

Children Hands Father Wish Water Money Power Republican Woods Corporations Revolutionary Drawers Aristocratic Money Power

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”

Thinking Hands Power Tools Army Absolutes Supporter Destroyers Absolute Power Lodges

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.”

People Thinking Hands Truth Enemy History Power Information Skillful Misuse Perversion

Author:John le Carre

“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”

“Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.”

Should Hands Peace Power Ubuntu Powerlessness

Author:Maggie Kuhn

“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

Men Should Book Hands Light Reading Power Alive Balls Literacy Power Man

Author:Ezra Pound

“What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.”

Years Two Hands Power Too Much Thousand Genocide Thousand Years Darfur Too Much Power

Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.”

People Should Made Hands Opinion Power Information Historical Concentration Trends Fewer Vehicle Public Opinion

Author:Spiro T. Agnew

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”

“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”

Hands Heaven Power Wife Fool Husband Creatures Gun Bravery Uniforms Bravado

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.”

Country Hands Government Law Political Order Politics Power Males Spite

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.”

Hands Power Terrorism Catchy

Book:The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.”

Men Hands Past Wealth Opinion Power Beer Great Men Grandeur Prestige Funny Beer Great Beer

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.”

Knows Doe Hands Courses Liberty Steps Power Know How Society Exercise Block

Author:Salvador de Madariaga

“They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.”

People Hands Government Political Realizing Liberty Power Four Economic Months Built Instruments Thirty Puppets Shackles Autocracy

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens States Philosophy Hands Power Fallen Rulers Addict

Book:Praise of Folly

Source: Praise of Folly

“A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.”

Children Hands Mother Power Strength Mom Tenderness Touchstones Mother Care

Author:Marjorie Holmes

“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”

Character Hands Power Findings Weakness Powerless Euphemism Dabs

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.”

Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers

“To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.”

World Needs Hands Power Command Palms

Author:Tiberius

“The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.”

Feelings Body Hands Earth Power Cutting Fingers Vulnerable Landscape Touching Parcel

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.”

Hands Form Individual Freedom Power Opening Fascism Arbitrary Wedges

Author:Jack Parsons

“Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.”

Giving Hands Power Greatness

Book:The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides

Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides

“There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.”

Hands Power Fists

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“Iron hand in a velvet glove.”

Hands Power Iron Gloves Power Of Love Velvet

Author:Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

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