Quotes About Power

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.

Our enemies and allies alike must know that aggressors will pay an unspeakable price for challenging the United States. The best way to impose that price is global military dominance.

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

The unspoken contract between ruler and subject is that in return for safety, prosperity, and prestige, the Russians entrust power and cede democratic freedoms to their leaders.

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

There's an unspoken rule post-Cold War American Presidents have used when describing the awesome power of our nuclear arsenal; the more devastating the ability to destroy the enemy, the more restrained the language should be.

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

If we Argentines dare to unite, we will be unstoppable.

We see China becoming an unstoppable force. It's a huge threat and a huge opportunity.

When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

They tried to humiliate and cow her down in every way possible, but Jayalalithaaji was unstoppable. With every attack, she became stronger.

Roc Nation is strong, I'm strong and powerful on my own, and when we put it together we're unstoppable.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

Pelosi abuses her power in ways that once were unthinkable. Her speakership has been the antithesis of Lincoln's entreaty to 'the better angels of our nature.' Everyone in Congress - and, by extension, the nation - has been sullied by the spite and vitriol she has injected into the political sphere.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.

The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free world - probably the most powerful person in the world - not simply in terms of America's military might but in terms of the moral authority of the president. Donald Trump has largely abdicated that.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.