Quotes About Power

...Scorpio. Beneath this cool exterior is a powder keg of passion.

The penetrating gaze of a Scorpio is unlikely to miss any detail.

Being a Scorpio is an intense earthly experience.

Life itself is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

There is great power in letting go, and there is great freedom in moving on.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

The word is mightier than the sword.

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

And Jesus looking on them said, with men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Faith can move mountains.

Only you can control your future.

Out where the grass grows high, and the horned cattle dream away the lazy afternoons, and men still fear the powers and principalities of the air—out there between the corn-rows he held his old puissance to the end.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Democracy is a form of religion, it is the worship of jackals by jack asses.

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when the fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of Omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.