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Quotes About Power

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.
~ Lord Acton
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.
~ M.I.A.
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.
~ Marya Mannes
The influence of the Church does not depend on the Church, it depends on the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will never lose its influence. He is God and He is influencing society.
~ Max Lucado
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.
~ Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
~ A.E. Samaan
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?
~ Russell Smith
Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.
~ George Muller
Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!
~ Kenneth E. Hagin
By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances.
~ Kenneth Copeland
Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.
~ Edgar Cayce
Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.
~ Kenneth Copeland
A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.
~ F. F. Bosworth
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.
~ Frank Fools Crow
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
~ Charles Fillmore
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.