Quotes About Power

Herein a power lies, within the reach Of all who study what it fain would teach; Whereby the writer by his pen doth show The inward self of those we outward know...

Notorious RBG: You can't handle the Ruth.

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

The big bee flies high, the little bee makes the honey; the black folks makes the cotton, and the white folks get the money.

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry, spiritual by what we can bear.

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

BALLOT BOX. The altar of democracy.

Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time...

Voting is the language of democracy.

And that conviction will, I dare say, be backed up by the greatest torrent of money ever poured out to influence an American election — poured out by the men who fear nothing so much as change and who want everything to stay as it is — only more so. This idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box-tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

If Voting Changed Anything, They'd Abolish It

The man with the best job in the country is the vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"

Control sometimes hurts more than chaos.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first.

Automobiles are not ferocious... it is man who is to be feared.

Tyrannosaurus drinks. Tyrannosaurus drives. Tyrannosaurus rex.

Tyrannosaurus drives. Tyrannosaurus texts. Tyrannosaurus rex.

Scorpios know that sometimes the poison is the cure.

Scorpio is the most intense sign of the Zodiac, and is associated with sexual activity and with the symbolism of death and rebirth. Their emotions run deep. They may suffer in life, but their pain leads to important personal transformation. Scorpios are a shrewd judge of other people's motives. When they work out their issues to be more in line with their own higher nature, they can take on the charismatic power of a natural healer, transforming themselves and society around them.

Scorpios are constantly searching for answers...

Scorpios are capable, in a truly Plutonian fashion, of completely and suddenly changing their life styles...