Quotes About Power

Lydia delighted her. The girl's roughness, her ability, her exuberance, were qualities desired by Sarah for her children. You could make something out of a girl like that. She had power.

God can use the jawbone of an ass!

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

We are the masters of our fate.

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Here is the salient fact which distinguishes the English Revolution from all others: that those who wielded irresistible physical force were throughout convinced that it could give them no security. Nothing is more characteristic of the English people than their instinctive reverence even in rebellion for law and tradition. Deep in the nature of the men who had broken the King's power was the conviction that law in his name was the sole foundation on which they could build.

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery — a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you will find on the pillow.

Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order. He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

are not all women treated by all men like something inferior, like chattels you take up and put down at will?

She looked up and saw that his scrutiny had gratified him. It was one of the few comforting factors in Demelza's excursions into society, this faculty she had of pleasing men. She did not see it yet as power, only as a buttress to faltering courage. She

Women never fundamentally disliked a little rough treatment. (More than one had told him it was their secret dream.)

the lord lieutenant was the king's man and from him came all things great and small. Or, to be explicit, what came from him were appointments to be justice of the peace, and to be a JP meant to be the possessor of undisputed local power. For good or ill the JPs ruled, unchecked by Privy Council or the public purse.

But moral argument is the most potent force in the world, Captain. It was that more than force of arms that defeated us in America.

But once ignited the power and the grace of the Holy Spirit was like a bush fire.