Quotes About Power

Of course, it comes to me, finally, that I'm not really dreaming. That I am actually moving through this tunnel, although not of my own power. Without

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

What I am is my own business.' 'Not any more.' He let his voice sink down meaningfully on the words. 'You are now my business — mine to control just as I fancy.

Woman is as elemental as the sea, and at times equally terrible in her power.' he murmured. 'Man resorts to brute force in order to subdue her subtle cruelty, for he is constantly aware of the forces which can overcome his strength and drown his will to a mere incoherent murmur in the silken hollow of a fragile white shoulder. Be wise in your power, pequena. It can bring you happiness or despair.

But Vajpayee was a realist. He had joined the BJP recognising that the party would never come to power during his lifetime. That did not matter so much to him. He had never been after power. Otherwise, he would have accepted Narasimha Rao's offer, made in 1993, to join the Congress. He was happy sitting in the opposition and sticking to his principles.

And with a single stroke of his pen, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed suspended the institutions of Indian democracy!

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

They can do all because they think they can.

Thrice they tried to pile Ossa on Pelion, yes, and roll up leafy Olympus upon Ossa; thrice the Father of Heaven split the mountains apart with his thunderbolt.

The gods thought otherwise.

Others, I take it, will work better with breathing bronze and draw living faces from marble; others will plead at law with greater eloquence, or measure the pathways of the sky, or forecast the rising stars. Be it your concern, Roman, to rule the nations under law (this is your proper skill) and establish the way of peace; to spare the conquered and put down the mighty from their seat.

So vast was the struggle to found the Roman state.

With Jove I begin.

Fury provides arms.

Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

To-day, it is no exaggeration to claim that out of the eleven countries smashed and overrun by Germany, half of them were destroyed, not by tanks, but by propaganda.

All Rothschilds still accept the belief: 'A family that works together is invincible.

Like Shakespeare's shrew, she should have been beaten every day by her husband,

Ouvrard could rage, Hope could enveigh, Baring could protest; but the Rothschilds had arrived.

There are some people who want to feel power over other people. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves if they have someone to look down upon.

too often the majority makes far less noise than a determined minority.