Quotes About Power

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

And nature must obey necessity.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Humor, motivations, moral, gods, energy, secrecy

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.

Ideology follows the money.""Governments don't protect people, people protect governments.""To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH.

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.