Quotes About Power

Big guns are good but the Almighty is better, and He is on our side, no matter what the Kaiser says about it.

God is a spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth

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Oh I know. But feeling is so different than knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times where common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

He was surrounded by tyrants who thought they had a right to order him about: it was a conspiracy. He could not call his soul his own.

Christopher Columbus could greedily avow before those Most Catholic Monarchs of Spain that "gold is most excellent - with gold is treasure made; he who has it can do whatever he wants.

How strange, I remember thinking, how utterly strange were the ways of the Castilians—just by saying that something was so, they believed that it was. I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

We want to travel back in time, but we can't, and so we want to go to a new place instead. Place is what we have instead of time. No. Not true. Money is what we have now, instead of place or time." He exhales. "Time is money. Place is money. Love, love is money. And power is money. You'll see.

In this twentieth century, people are judged according to their nation. The people of a powerful nation are people; the people of a weak nation are dogs.

Then there's the sex business. For example, there are persistent rumors that Bush has girlfriends. Remember that "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," look at Barbara, and there are three possibilities: George is a normal male attracted to younger women and he cheats; George chooses to have sex exclusively with a woman who looks like a Hallmark greeting card grandmother; George is a eunuch. Think about it—which George would you want running the country?

Wag the Dog became an international byword for fake wars staged to distract from domestic political problems. Without a doubt, it raised the level of cynicism, which is to say it raised the level of awareness that real events are directed and staged for their political impact.

In many ways the greatest the world had ever known though there was a prohibition against saying so in polite political society. In any case, it so far exceeded the sort of minor realm ruled by the Borgias, the meager reach of the Medici, the influence of any Italian city-state, that any such comparison was like comparing an elephant to an ant. It could only be compared, de facto, no matter what political-speak required people to say, to Rome when Rome was the very definition of empire.

Democratic representative Pat Schroeder called him "the most evil man in America." Reverend Pat Robertson said, "Lee Atwater has used every dirty trick known to mankind" and "the Republican campaign was blamed for planting specious rumors about the mental-health history of Michael Dukakis." (William Greider, Rolling Stone, 1/12/89)

At a meeting in a formal, hierarchical setting, a powerful player can get away with killing a good idea. But informality encourages people to test their thinking, to experiment, and to cross-check.

We get to play God with our stories.

That level of honesty is reserved for the counseling office. Church is too often a place of pretense and therefore a place without hope. When brokenness is disdained, where the real story is never told, the power of God is not felt. Where brokenness is invited and received with grace, the gospel comes alive with hope.

The woman had won. In the end, it seemed they always did.

They respected only the strong men who could not be insulted without a price being paid in blood.

Afterwards the members of the little war party felt fine. Torturing whites was a splendid way to spend the afternoon.

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

Without risk there was no power, not for a grown man.

A good title can save a book

He didn't like it that there were men who could scare him so badly that he was even afraid to take a shit.