Quotes About Power

A good intention clothes itself with power.

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.

Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, Thou must,The youth replies, I can.

Coal is a portable climate.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.

The world is his, who has money to go over it.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I am the owner of the sphere,Of the seven stars and the solar year,Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

God said, I am tired of kings,I suffer them no more;Up to my ear the morning bringsThe outrage of the poor.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.