Quotes About Power

Im Kampf gegen den Terror zählt [...] die Freiheit des Einzelnen wenig.

Die Folter war [...] praktizierte Schutzpflicht des Souveräns für seine Untertanen.

Wer Feind ist, ist keine rechtliche, sondern eine politische Frage.

as the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead or degraded to the sphere of a demoniacal power.

Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.

The superhuman task of transforming present society into a state of peace and joy requires more than ordinary human power; if God himself does not work the change, hope can be cherished only when human power is divinized.

whoever intentionally robs himself of self-consciousness, reason, and will, extinguishes the light which God has given to man, annihilates his human freedom and independence, and degrades himself to an instrument for an alien and unknown power.

Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Thou great democratic God!… who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!

All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

For whether the sun will rise again tomorrow, that I cannot know with certainty. But that God the Father, the almighty Creator of heaven and earth, is still there—that I surely know. That Jesus Christ is Lord, to whom all power has been given in heaven and on earth, that the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, moves over the chaos of this time as He did in the beginning over the dark depths—that I know.

For the sun is situated in the center of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

the closer one is to a source of power, the quieter it gets. Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

One way or the other, she had no doubt she would succeed in influencing her husband and obtaining the independence she so longed for.