Power Quotes - Page 48

Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of such knowledge is inherently vulnerable to scrutiny; the object is a ‘fact’ which, if it develops, changes, or otherwise transforms itself in the way that civilizations frequently do, nevertheless is fundamentally, even ontologically stable. To have such knowledge of such a thing is to dominate it, to have authority over it.

The necessity of creation is the sovereign power of choice

In my school, no consideration is given to anything unreasonable; the heart of the matter is to use the power of the knowledge of martial arts to gain victory any way you can.

Miyamoto Musashi

Knowledge is not always power.

Kara Lee Corthron

Until we begin to live for people and stop living for self, we have not started living, we just exist.

The difficulties of people should be our business.

special" knowledge gives them a sense of power, control, status and/or monetary gain. For some, the need to belong is so powerfulthat they choose to ignore the fact that the power they think are wielding actually controls, manipulates, and abuses them.

If Nigeria will change for the better, then we must take responsibility for the changes in Nigeria.

We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch.

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

It is our business to proffer solution to the problem of the society.

We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society.

We have to lend our voice to Christ by speaking on His behalf.

We have to confront ignorance in our nation.

I realized that the knowledge I gained over this period in my life was power, and it felt like a waste not to share that wealth with the world, with people who could benefit,

God rules through light.

It is an insult to live in the fear of darkness.

For you to be able to turn on the light in the darkness, you have to live in the light.

As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge), the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.

Jesus had the ministry of light (knowledge).

Jesus was never indifferent to the issues of the people in His day.

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

When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.

Pedagogy is always about power, because it cannot be separated from how subjectives are formed, desires mobilized, how some experiences are legitimized and others are not, or how some knowledge is considered acceptable while other forms are excluded from the curriculum.

Henry A. Giroux

The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.

God does not have any business with irresponsible people.

There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility.

When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying the high price of irresponsibility, which is often in tragedy and sorrow.

Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.

Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix.

If it is God’s business, then it should be your business.

Ignorance is a very useful weapon in the hands of the devil against humanity, especially Christians.

Personal responsibility leads to national transformation.

The price of ignorance is way more than the price we would have paid to acquire knowledge.

The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction.

Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it.

The devil is the reason for all the problems we have in the society.

We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance.

The only thing destroying us is ignorance.

Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag.

Let’s stop glorifying the devil, giving him power that he does not deserve or have.

We are the author of our own destruction.

When we live in ignorance, we live in darkness and that is where the devil rules.

Nothing in the whole world is more dangerous than ignorance.

Every evil we see in our society today can be traced back to ignorance.

There is no difference between the person living in ignorance and the person living in darkness.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

Light always overshadows and out powers darkness.

Darkness is subject to light, and can never manifest itself in the presence of light.

The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and you're being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.

Light generates life and causes it to grow.

When you live in light, you live under God’s rulership.

When you live in darkness, you live under the ruler-ship of the devil.

There are several grave consequences that come with lack of knowledge, the paramount is destruction.

Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life.

It means that the lack of knowledge is the foundation for all life failures, destruction, depression, difficulties, hatred, bitterness, envy, etc.

There is no other force destroying us like ignorance.

It’s like we are having a harvest of destruction in our nations, continent and world today, all because of ignorance.

We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.

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