Quotes About Power

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Art is stronger than Nature

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

You are one of the forces of nature.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

The sun - my almighty physician.

People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.