Quotes About Power

For thirty years I've defended this sacred place with the power of my mighty steed, Sunracer, my legendary lightning lance, and my unflagging faith." "Horses don't live thirty years," said Sorrow. "This is Sunracer VI, though

Don't you see the act of capturing and punishing another being is an act of force? It's impossible to enforce laws without violence. Some authority always wields the power to arrest, to imprison, and to execute. The sole purpose of law is to provide a moral gloss for the use of violence to bend others to the will of a higher authority.

watching the sky, contemplating the restorative power of unexpected kindness.

Infidel leaned over and picked up the Gloryhammer. She slung it over her shoulder. "This is mine now." "Really?" asked Zetetic. "What gives you a claim to it?" "The fact that I'll flatten anyone who tries to take it from me." "I find your reasoning quite persuasive," said Zetetic. Infidel's

Laws exist only for the benefit of the strong; they unfailingly justify the oppression of the weak.

Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.

If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.

Upon the right constitution of checks all goodness of government depends.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

It is the power of God operating through the teaching of his Word that alone has power "to demolish strongholds" (2 Cor. 10:4).

I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

Mira chico, aparta esa pistola. Las balas no me detienen, las navajas no me hieren... Mira...¡Mírame! Soy el error del piloto, soy la malformación del feto, soy el cromosoma aleatorio... soy la más completa y total locura... soy el miedo...

under progressivism, the state will grow until it controls everything and absolutely. That is, it will grow into a totalitarian state.

A bureaucracy is an agency that has power over us and therefore will use that power to advance its own self-interest. Bureaucrats have little or no incentive to serve the interests of the public as their compensation is received whether or not they do so and they lack the expertise to do so even if so inclined.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.

Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed.

Because culture as such can have no temporal limits, a culture understands its past not as destiny, but as history, that is, as a narrative that has begun but points always toward the endlessly open. Culture is an enterprise of mortals, disdaining to protect themselves against surprise. Living in the strength of their vision, they eschew power and make joyous play of boundaries.

We need a term that will stand in contrast to "power" as it acquires its meaning in finite play. Let us say that where the finite player plays to be powerful the infinite player plays with strength.

Power will always be restricted to a relatively small number of selected persons. Anyone can be strong.