Power Quotes

What he had loved in Marthe were those evenings when they would walk into the movie theater and men'...

My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself...

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would...

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from wh...

Like every other good thing in thisworld, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, howe...

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely f...

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material po...

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it ...

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exe...

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is ...

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of out...

One is always a good master when one isn’t the master

Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluste...

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, a...

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and t...

Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been...

The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to wor...

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held...

Asking for help with shame

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search fo...

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Powe...

Your blessings are very important to melt down the stony hearts.

Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of...

Mindfulness and compassion can give you the power, illumination, love, and wisdom to draw higher for...

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denyi...

The media—stenographers to power.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is ...

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovere...

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your hu...

Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for todayAdjudicateLegislateScandalizeCapitalizehere are Kreon's nouns...

I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginn...

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die ...

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will eme...

Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old,...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet fo...

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come ...

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked ...

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procu...

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the to...

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degr...

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life ...

Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are sham nigg...

People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume ...

Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase - speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn't...

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it ta...

I seek no favor untouched by blood.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Na...

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fe...

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of...

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is th...

Both Yassi and I know that we have been losing our faith. We have been questioning it with every mov...

Look at these magnificent women, I thought, created in such misogynistic and hierarchical societies,...

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way-- to show that people w...

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a co...

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summ...

We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-decl...

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but yo...

I had begun to see a new map of the world, one that was frightening in its simplicity, suffocating i...

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, t...

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything abo...

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news sh...