Quotes About Power

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.

A guerra é mãe e rainha de todas as coisas

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

One thunderbolt strikes root through everything

War is the father of all and the king of all; it proves some people gods, and some people men; it makes some people slaves and some people free.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

War, as father of all things, and king, names few to serve as gods, and of the rest makes these men slaves, those free.

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Time is a child playing dice; the Kingly power is a child's.

What really corrupts is not power, but a sense of powerlessness.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has not done anything wrong, but has merely demonstrated his smartness.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself.

The economic theorists' overvaluation of rigor is a symptom of their undervaluation of explanatory power.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.

In His humanity Christ depended not on His own power, but upon His almighty Father in heaven.