Quotes About Power

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Only the great power of love can make you great.

The economic base of a nation, is the foundation of the it's secrets.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.