Quotes About Power

The more you stop giving power to your excuses, the more you'll send power to your dreams.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls With vassals and serfs at my side.

My vision is to change the world and paint it with a brush that is powerful enough to make us one.

When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

Belief is the strongest power you can bring to bear in order to realise your dreams.

Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none."From The Tenth, chapter 28.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

I recognize the lion by his paw.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.