Quotes About Power

If we don't put our foot down, they will release every man and his dog.

To love God, no matter the name, and no matter the religion, is to make a wholehearted reach toward the universal, to come to see for oneself that in spite of the lonely feelings we have as individual people, each of us can still stand on our own two feet, supported by a higher, deeper power.

I whose holy sperm embalms the mountains, the lakes, the woods, the forests, the hills and the vastnesses of seas!

I created you. Hence I have the right to do what I will with you. You have done me no harm, I admit. I make you suffer for my own pleasure.

I want to love you and worship you but you are too powerful and there is fear in my praises. If you can destroy or create worlds by a mere manifestation of thought, my feeble prayers could serve you no useful purpose. If when it pleases you, you can send cholera to ravage cities, or death to bear away in his talons without distinction the four ages of life, I wish to form no alliance with a friend so formidable.

L'homme dit : « Je suis plus intelligent que l'océan. » C'est possible ; c'est même assez vrai ; mais l'océan lui est plus redoutable que lui à l'océan : c'est ce qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de prouver.

God created human beings for procreation (Genesis 1:28). [6] It is not within a person's power, without God giving a unique gift, to change this creation.

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

Madison and others reserved their harshest criticism for state religions obsessed with earthly wealth and power. Their argument was two-pronged: State religion was bad for the individual citizen, interfering with his most basic and personal of choices, and it was bad for religion, condemning the church to worldliness and corruption.

John Lewis Gaddis had come to visit shortly before the election and over lunch said something that resonated with me. "Never forget how really dependent the world is on America. And they know it.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

"One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world."

Meet resentment with upright dealing and meet inner power with inner power.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

He whose wisdom brings him into power, needs Goodness to secure that power. Else, though he get it, he will certainly lose it.

Do not be too ready to speak of it [Goodness], lest the doing of it should prove to be beyond your powers.

When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes. " Genghis paused for a moment. "Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.

We are not here to earn riches with a bow. The wolf does not think of fine things, only that his pack is strong and no other wolf dares to cross his path. That is enough.

He was the khan of Wolves and he feared no man. They would pay dearly for his skin.

We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.

Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words." "It makes them real, lord. It makes them last.

A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.

Be careful of raising me too high, brother. I have no special strength, unless it is in choosing good men to follow me. The great lie of cities is that we are all too weak to stand against those who oppress us. All I have done is see through that lie. I always fight, Kachiun. Kings and shahs depend on people remaining sheep, too afraid to rise up. All I ever did was realize I can be a wolf to them.