Quotes About Power

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

Nature has always had more force than education.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Prayer never changes the laws of nature.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.