Quotes About Power

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men that want crops without plowing up the ground….Power concedes nothing without a demand.

love of power and his dealing so contemptuously with people once he had fallen out with them.38 In Ulyanov's view, Struve had betrayed orthodox Marxism with the 'bourgeois apologetics' of his conciliatory, legal Marxism. He was nothing but 'a politico, an artful dodger, a huckster, and an impudent boor

all power is given you in earth and Heaven. There is nothing that you cannot do.

Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle.

Son únicamente tus pensamientos los que te causan dolor. 2 Nada externo a tu mente puede herirte o hacerte daño en modo alguno. 3 No hay causa más allá de ti mismo que pueda abatirse sobre ti y oprimirte. 4 Nadie, excepto tú mismo, puede afectarte. 5 No hay nada en el mundo capaz de hacerte enfermar, de entristecerte o de debilitarte. 6 Eres tú el que tiene el poder de dominar todas las cosas que ves reconociendo simplemente lo que eres.

Tal vez parezca que el mundo te causa dolor. 2 Sin embargo, al no tener causa, no tiene el poder de ser la causa de nada. 3 Al ser un efecto, no puede producir efectos. 4 Al ser una ilusión, es lo que tú deseas que sea. 5 Tus vanos deseos constituyen sus pesares. 6 Tus extraños anhelos dan lugar a sus sueños de maldad. 7 Tus pensamientos de muerte lo envuelven con miedo, mientras que en tu benévolo perdón halla vida.

Mover of Mountains Faith is a force that is greater than knowledge or power or skill, And the darkest defeat turns to triumph if you trust in God's wisdom and will, For faith is a mover of mountains— there's nothing man cannot achieve If he has the courage to try it and then has the faith to believe.

Proof of the power of the press is the fear of the press by the government. Martha Gellhorn as quoted by Helen Thomas

It's become the incredible shrinking presidency in terms of access, and in my opinion, we are all being shortchanged.

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

Making other people feel bad about themselves and their needs is a very powerful thing to do. Totally immoral, but powerful.

But in the same way that you can listen to a part of yourself without agreeing with it, you can listen to your partner, or indeed anyone, with compassion without giving up your own position. You gain both closeness and true power by acknowledging what someone else thinks and feels. An

Women with power and authority tend to intimidate people far more than men with the same qualities, particularly if those women deserve the position they have achieved.

Murder is murder, and a killer is a killer! Even if he pisses in a gold chamberpot, he's still a killer.

It was a modern massacre: urban in origin, driven by ideology, fueled by the press, and abetted by politicians from afar.

Print could be wielded by the purveyors of prejudice as well as by the combatants for civilization

The fate of every nation rests in its own power.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.

Through centuries of centuries, fire and water face each other; the fire, upright, buoyant and leaping; the water flat, creeping, gliding, widening its lines and its surface. When they touch, is it the water which hisses and roars, or is it the fire?

It is an important experience to be in the presence of a thinking creature who is crying. A weak, broken creature who is crying creates the same impression as an omnipotent god whom one implores; for in its weakness and defeat it rises above the human condition.

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

Religion is a defensive reaction of nature against the dissolvent power of intelligence.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy