Quotes About Power

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

Life does not forgive weakness.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.

What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.