Quotes About Power

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.

Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.