Quotes About Power

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Man must conquer nature.

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.