Quotes About Power

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Peace through superior firepower.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

Effective action is always unjust.

Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

A mind sourced in Spirit is a river of immeasurable power and life-giving goodness.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.

The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.