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Quotes About Power

She dances in a ring of fire and throws of the challenge with a shrug.
~ Jim Morrison
A drainless shower of light is poesy 'tis the supreme of power 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.
~ John Keats
The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.
~ Sally Odgers
it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.
~ Nayyirah Waheed
Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man
~ E.E. Cummings
The machines are too dull when weare lion-poems that move & breathe.
~ Michael McClure, Ghost Tantras
a storm that walked on legs of lightning, dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.
~ Ted Kooser
Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it's a vortex that can't and won't be stopped.
~ Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise
Speak without words. Know the weight of words
~ SpillingInk
It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
~ Joseph Stalin
Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.
~ James Connolly
Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
~ Idi Amin
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
~ Plato
The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.
~ bell hooks
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
~ Otto von Bismarck
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
~ Edward R. Murrow
I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.
~ Jimmy Hoffa
A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.
~ Bernie Sanders
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.
~ Lenny Bruce
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
~ Will Rogers
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
~ James Madison