Quotes About Power

Impeachment isn't a tool that should be used to virtue signal.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue of your cause.

Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot - he's the president of the United States. By virtue of his office, he speaks for the country.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Dembele likes to take players on. He's a dribbler and a power player who likes to break into space; he has the ability to do this. He has a lot of virtues.

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.

Our virtuous system is already corrupt. Does anyone seriously think that cabinet ministers or captains of industry or powerful officials wait in the same lines as the rest of us?

The AIDS virus is not more powerful than God.

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.

There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I'm a visceral guy.

The greatest impressions I have from watching 'Dynasty' were the fashion but, also, these women who had these very visceral emotions that they took out on each other for various reasons.