Quotes About Power

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

We are that which activates the body.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.

You only have control over the storms you are able to have peace in.

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.

What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

A disarmed peace is weake.

Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.