Quotes About Power

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.