Quotes About Power

Man will destroy what man fears!

Social hierarchy doesn't hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

If a man couldn't control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.

What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Nature can do more than physicians.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.