Sentences with phrase «lust for power»

No need for churches... they are an instrument of corruption, used for the benefits of those who lust for power.

Its all about lust for power and control over others.

Fighting those who lust for power and control is a game of life and death, both physically and spiritually.

Set in the mythical world of Westeros, GoT is an epic tale of lusts for power, wealth, sex and violence.

One group in society lusts for power because its position is secure; another group, because of its sense of insecurity.

This view condemns science as lust for power and comfort; technology is denounced as materialistic and dehumanizing.

Whether or not one believes in a personal devil, there are demonic forces in the world — cruel, sadistic, self - centered, lusting for power at any cost.

I believe that the primary purpose of the Bible is to equip us to do good works, not to help us win arguments, not prove other people wrong, and not to support our own lusts for power or domination of others.

At worst, these movies reduce good actors to terminally boring intergalactic conquerors, with no motivation beyond a mechanical, plot - driving lust for power.

The three religions are very similar, and the division exists because of jews lust for power and supremacy.

When it was in vogue, it was sometimes attended by a doctrine of American «exceptionalism» so exaggerated that American purposes were depicted in angelic hues, untouched by the ambiguities, corruptions, and lust for power associated with mere mortals.

But Thai Lang's lust for power led him down a path toward darkness that Shifu never wanted nor intended.

As the philosopher Slavoj ŽiŽek suggests, there is on the «mere authoritarian lust for power ``, but there is also a «totalitarian ideology ``.

In our heedless lust for power we have disgracefully disfigured the earth.

The left has let lust for power and greed for money to achieve that power drive them to duplicity and inaction.

Little did Serph know he was inadvertently feeding their malevolent lust for power.

As reported before on Queens - Politics, Graziano has become a pawn in Tony Avella's unquenchable lust for power.

By that standard, it is reasonable to conclude that Cuomo's frenzied lust for power is related to the death of his father, Mario Cuomo, on Jan. 1 of last year, hours after Andrew was sworn in for his second term.

His mother (Angelina Jolie) is a two - dimensional caricature of the scheming, ambitious woman whose lust for power is channeled through her son.

Villainy comes in the caped form of Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, whose seething callousness and desperate lust for power make him a truly malevolent figure (though his human frailties are exposed in one memorable encounter with a certain Imperial Lord).

With the help of an anthropology student obsessed with the legend of the Countess and an insatiable lust for power, the Countess is released, who needs Daninsky's service in order to bring darkness to the world.

We've put together a list of 5 movie villains who are best remembered for their respective lusts for power, money and control.

There is someone somewhere in your life with the same lust for power, the same follow the rules attitude, the same pettiness, and the same sugar covered bile.

Instead, they appealed to our most base lust for power and godhood for personal gain.

Concentrating on the Middle East since World War II, Pryce «Jones shows how one Arab regime after another has been but a repeat of tribal allegiances played out in a pattern of lust for power and revenge, reflecting a shame «honor culture that leaves no room for the concept, never mind the pursuit, of the common good.

For the men with hard faces, the men who lust for power and see their fellows as no more than units in a machine, know intuitively that the Church is the implacable champion of human liberty, of the truly human values and the finest human aspirations.

Unlike fire, the written word, gunpowder, the wheel, modern monetary systems, political parties, nuclear energy, television, the internet, Facebook, and Twitter, blockchain will be unique among all the other things human beings have invented and will be impervious to corruption, greed, and the lust for power.

Customs union, monetary union, banking union, defense union, digital union, energy union, fiscal union, political union... there is no limit to Brussels» lust for power and control.

In a complaint filed on Thursday in the California Superior Court in Orange County, Gross said Pimco managing directors were «driven by a lust for power, greed, and a desire to improve their own financial position and reputation» in their ultimately successful plot to drive him out.

... The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and... they went to even greater lengths, not stopping at what justice or the good of the state demanded, but making the party caprice of the moment their only standard, and invoking with equal readiness the condemnation of an unjust verdict or the authority of the strong arm to glut the animosities of the hour.

Stalin's purges were not motivated by atheism, but by a lust for power.

In essence we murdered the one who is at once our creator and our only hope all because of petty jealousy, lust for power and the need to be right.

And yes, they are not pleased with your lust for power, your lust for money and your lust for children.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

And, of course, chastity is about more than sexuality — there's a reason why we talk about a «lust for power,» after all.

The actions of communist dictators were driven by totalitarianism... a lust for power that they felt would be threatened by religious cults.

IN THE BEGINNING... men with a lust for power and control created a fictional being to scare the masses into submission.

Calling Obama an anti-christ while at the same time condoning greed and lust for power that would have left Jesus shaking his head and calling those people «Romans».

Many presidents, senators, congressman are where they are simply because they have a lust for power.

Recognizing that no order of society will put an end to the lust for power over others and the use of power to exploit, it contains checks and balances.

Surely the predominant message of the New Testament condemns the lust for power over others and any use of violence to obtain such power.

«The church was not a role model, there was corruption, there was worldliness, there was greed, and lust for power.

But for Augustine, a neutral secular space could only be a society without God, subject to the libido dominandi, the lust for power.

«O Lord and Master of my life, grant not unto me a spirit of idleness, of discouragement, of lust for power, and of vain speaking.