People Power Quotes

The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land. ~ Sunday Adelaja

People power. It has no limits. ~ Vitali Klitschko

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb. ~ Andre Carson

Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. ~ John Quincy Adams

I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people. ~ Bertie Carvel

Let your faith be in the Lord Jesus and not in your strength, to fight against ungodliness and injustice in the society. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The absence of justice anywhere is the presence of injustice everywhere. ~ Sunday Adelaja

When you mix with the wrong energy, there's bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What's really real, is ultimately revealed. ~ T.F. Hodge

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. ~ George Mason

There is no one or a group that would ever be able to achieve or accomplish anything unique except that they are angry with their situation. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power. ~ Robin Hobb

People who want nothing need nothing more than power. ~ Rebecca McNutt

If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens. ~ Sunday Adelaja

People who know their worth understand the power of their own words. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same as to say that it is merely a word which is powerful with us, and not the wide and true notion of what the word means. But we must define the true import of words, and not be slaves to syllables; for democracy in form is not necessarily people-power in fact, but power perhaps of a few, who cajole the many and so lead and use the people for their own ends. ~ James Vila Blake

Whenever you are being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, endeavor to speak against it, endeavor to stand up against it, and expect to see change. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed. ~ Sunday Adelaja

At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world ... ~ Charlie Chaplin

A wonderful blend of technology & people power for India's growth, 'MyGov' has several discussion forums, on-line & on-ground tasks. I am delighted to invite you to join 'MyGov' & contribute towards taking India to greater heights of progress. ~ Narendra Modi

We feel good when we hear about how powerful we are because we are pure power. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. ~ Ted Cruz

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy. ~ Narendra Modi

There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility. ~ Sunday Adelaja

In England, the struggle between church and kings would take centuries to resolve. Interestingly, in the end, neither institution came out on top. Today, each is as powerless as the other. As people power emerged, we invented politicians. We're not bright. ~ Jodi Taylor

Every individual has a role to play for the betterment of our nation. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Contrary to what we, the people, have been told, we are the power; we have supreme authority because we are the masses and true power always resides with the masses, never with the global elite who, by their very nature, have always been a vulnerable minority and will always continue to be ... As long as the masses realize that, of course. ~ James Morcan

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State. ~ Margaret Thatcher

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people. ~ Scott Walker

Unfortunately, the desires of rulers are not always the desires of the people. ~ Brigid Kemmerer

When you reject knowledge, God rejects you. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Alexandros points to the bronze sculpture of Socrates. "His society didn't collapse because of an outside aggressor. It collapsed from within, from the complete breakdown of communication between citizens, and the breakdown of loving sentiment for one another. They ganged up and got rid of Socrates because he was an uncomfortable reminder of the glory days of ancient Athens, when /demokratia/--'people power'--reigned and citizens worked toward a greater good. He epitomized the fact that you're meant to stay open to all views, to all human experiences, because that's how you deepen your love for people and of wisdom. That amazing man sacrificed his life in the name of classic Athenian values of excellence and honor and compassion, so one day they might live on. And they did, here in America, for more than two centuries. I'm worried my beloved America is becoming as loveless as ancient Athens in its days of decline. ~ Christopher Phillips

Look up and hook up to a life of significance and don't look down on yourself. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people. ~ Carl Bernstein

What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life. ~ Sunday Adelaja

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people. ~ Stephen Colbert

Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Some people use power, whilst they are some who let power use them. ~ Moffat Machingura

Your voice may not be loud today or be heard today, but make sure you are still standing on your feet. ~ Sunday Adelaja

There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone. ~ Sunday Adelaja

People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain. ~ Mark Almond

What worked, GAO found, was strong leadership commitment, investment in the capacity needed to get the job done, careful monitoring of results, and a commitment to stay with the problems until they were solved. Investment in government's capacity, and careful attention to key details, demonstrated that failure is not the only option. But success builds on people power. ~ Donald F. Kettl

Elect the king or queen - what a funny concept. Everyone knew that elections only worked for judges and Congress. Making the executive branch pander to the people, go out begging for votes - that could only end in disaster. That structure would attract the wrong sort of people: power-hungry people with twisted agendas. ~ Katharine McGee

if we seek social status, we give other people power over us: We have to do things calculated to make them admire us, and we have to refrain from doing things that will trigger their disfavor. ~ William B. Irvine

And you never even reported it. You should have reported it. I could have took fingerprints. I'd love to lock up them skinheads."
"What I'm reporting is the gun, my Sig Sauer." Dave said. "Hetzel will have it. I want it back."
"What did it cost you?" Rose said.
"That's not the point," Dave said. "It's the only gun I ever owned. I'm against guns. They give too many people power who have no right to it. Guns cancel out intelligence, reason, decency, civility, and put terror in their place. I got along without a gun most of my working life. But a man can't buck the odds forever. About five years back I bought the Sig Sauer. I'm used to it. And I don't know that I'm morally prepared to buy another one. ~ Joseph Hansen

The individuals that will stand or speak or act for the sake of the society must be the kind of people that do not accept limitation. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people. ~ Mark McKinnon

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people. ~ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people. ~ Haile Gebrselassie

What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people. ~ Max Landis

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

To be compassionate, you have to forget your own comfort zone and live well because you live beyond yourself. ~ Sunday Adelaja

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people. ~ Joe Slovo

Everyone who fights always fight with a purpose in mind. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Stories. They only belong to the people if the people demand to speak. ~ Jeff Mach

God does not have any business with irresponsible people. ~ Sunday Adelaja

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people. ~ Lysander Spooner

Go all the way and let your soul be in what you are doing and there will be no limitations. ~ Sunday Adelaja

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

And that brings me to my definition of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them do. It sounds menacing, doesn't it? We don't like to talk about power. We find it scary. We find it somehow evil. We feel uncomfortable naming it. In the culture and mythology of democracy, power resides with the people. ~ Eric Liu

When you decide not to discipline yourself to seek for knowledge in any area, God sees it as the rejection of knowledge. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The population, who are, ultimately, indifferent to public affairs and even to their own interests, negotiate this indifference with an equally spectral partner and one that is similarly indifferent to its own will: the government [Ie pouvoir] . This game between zombies may stabilize in the long term. The Year 2000 will not take place in that an era of indifference to time itself - and therefore to the symbolic term of the millennium - will be ushered in by negotiation.

Nowadays, you have to go straight from money to money, telegraphically so to speak, by direct transfer (that is the viral side of the matter). A viral revolution, then, more akin to the Glass Bead Game than to the steam engine, and admirably personified in Bernard Tapie's playboy face. For the look of money is reflected in faces. Gone are the hideous old capitalists, the old-style industrial barons wearing the masks of the suffering they have inflicted. Now there are only dashing playboys, sporty and sexual, true knights of industry, wearing the mask of the happiness they spread all around themselves.

The world put on a show of despair after 1968. It's been putting on a big show of hope since 1980. No more tears, alright? Reaganite optimism, the pump ing up of the dollar. Fabius's glossy new look. Patriotic conviviality. Reluctance prohibited. The old pessimism was produced by the idea that things were getting worse and worse. The new pessimism is produced by the fact that everything i ~ Jean Baudrillard

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. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

With his immaculately coiffured blond locks and his impeccable cut-glass accent, he looks, and sounds, like a dab hand. 'People are as nice as you make them,' he enunciates. 'Which gives you a heck of a lot of power over them, of course. ~ Kevin Dutton

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code
a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people
or, rather, there aren't any right people. ~ B.F. Skinner

Study to show yourself qualified for God's use. ~ Sunday Adelaja

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe. ~ Vitali Klitschko

It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them. ~ Sunday Adelaja

People are the most important resource in the world. ~ Sunday Adelaja

It is our business to restore the earth back to God through the principles of the Kingdom. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Just as you are what you think, you are also what you dream. ~ Sunday Adelaja

There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating in its implications. We were always playing on the white man's court, Ray had told me, by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher, or Kurt, wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had power and you didn't. If he decided not to, if he treated you like a man or came to your defense, it was because he knew that the words you spoke, the clothes you wore, the books you read, your ambitions and desires, were already his. Whatever he decided to do, it was his decision to make, not yours, and because of that fundamental power he held over you, because it preceded and would outlast his individual motives and inclinations, any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning. ~ Barack Obama

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us. ~ Elizabeth Janeway

Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness. ~ Sunday Adelaja

If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Jesus had the ministry of light (knowledge). ~ Sunday Adelaja

People who live on the devil's territory are automatically under his power ~ Sunday Adelaja

The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises. ~ Nick Harkaway

For we put the power in the people. ~ William Penn

I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into. ~ Gerry Harvey

The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice. ~ Sunday Adelaja

All men were tools, as she saw it. Dangerous tools, when roused, but that was why one took care in efforts of control. It all came back to leverage. It wasn't enough to ask a man if he would kill his brother. One had to make him see the consequences if he did not. Then one could only ask, which would he choose: brother or daughter? For all that kin might mean, most would choose the daughter. ~ Chris Galford

When everybody contributes a change to what he or she notices, it is then we will change our world. ~ Sunday Adelaja

The devil will do anything for you to be comfortable in your ignorance. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people. ~ Vikram Seth

Superior, do you understand me? These are white people. They are not like you, or me or us. They have the power to hurt you ... and sometimes it's fun to them when they do. Their power is not because they are smart ... it's because ... something happened sometime ... started somewhere and they got on top of the world. They got the power. The only power you got is to learn to live with them, learn to read their minds ... til you can do better. They don't treat each other right ... so don't you look to be treated right. You hear me? Sometimes there's good white people ... but don't you act like that til you know that. ~ J. California Cooper

What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images") ~ Erik Pevernagie

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people. ~ Lysander Spooner

Lack of knowledge leads to rejection by God. ~ Sunday Adelaja

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. ~ Alva Myrdal

The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Make sure you are standing for something you believe in. ~ Sunday Adelaja

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts. ~ Clint Eastwood

You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance. ~ Sunday Adelaja