Quotes About Power

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny