Quotes About Power

Money brings everything to you; even your daughters.

Les lois sont des toiles d'araignée à travers lesquelles passent les grosses mouches et où restent les petites

To watch the governing power is a useful career, and, I may add, a very busy one.

The old man replied, gravely: "The police, my dear boy, is the most incompetent thing on this earth, and government the feeblest in all matters concerning individuals. Neither the police nor the government can read hearts.

In that there is nothing very grave or very gay; since the world was a world, governments have always found pens for sale, and never have they failed to buy them

Some hunt heiresses, others a legacy; some fish for souls, yet others sell their clients, bound hand and foot. Every one who comes back from the chase with his game-bag well filled meets with a warm welcome in good society.

Unofficially—for not even white men would write such rules down—if Matthew wanted to take Rabbit by force, no one would challenge him. It was not even against the law in Georgia for a white man to ravish a slave woman. If the woman was a white man's own slave, it was his right. If he ravished another white man's slave, it was only a crime against property, such as hurting a horse or dog that belonged to another. Yet

And give up the white man's god—his ugly god, his lying god, his torturous god, his thieving god, his tricking god, and rebuke his missionaries who had one set of rules for white Christians and another for Christians among the people, and who, when asked, talked crossways, so that one word followed the next down a line leading to a place where buzzards roosted and called out beaked noise.

Women like to perform prodigies, break rocks, and soften natures which seem of iron.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Such, then, were the men in whose hands lay the welfare of the country. And, it must be confessed, they knew but little and cared still less about the common people for whom they legislated.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes.

Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.