Quotes About Power

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Skull and Bones" A secret society of spoiled twits whose apparent purpose in life is littering the landscape with as many as possible.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.