Quotes About Power

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

There can be miracles when you believe.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.

the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

A man is a god in ruins.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.