Quotes About Power

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

And the plan of Zeus was being accomplished.

Attach a golden chain from heaven, and all of you take hold of it, you gods and goddesses, yet would you not be able to drag Zeus the most high from heaven to earth.

A dream, too, is from Zeus.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

Far away in the mountains a shepherd hears their [the warriors'] thundering.

Great-hearted Stentor with brazen voice, who could shout as loud as fifty other men.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Sweeter it [wrath] is by far than the honeycomb dripping with sweetness, and spreads through the hearts of men.

No mortal could vie with Zeus, for his mansions and his possessions are deathless.

The sun, which sees all things and hears all things.

But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his horsemanship.

Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

Of all things that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. Taken from the Odyssey.

Words will not speak and the silence freezes into the images of the apartheid

it is precisely in these banalities that the unhomely stirs, as the violence of a racialized society falls most enduringly on the details of life: where you can sit, or not; how you can live, or not; what you can learn, or not; who you can love, or not.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.