Quotes About Power

When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence

Do not pray for easy times, pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Jika politik itu kotor, puisi akan membersihkannya. Jika politik bengkok, sastra akan meluruskannya.

Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment,...We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history or the world - or make it the last.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. (20 January 1961).

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

Truth is omnipotent.

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. ~ JFK

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.

When the Word of God is ignored and violated, divine judgment is inevitable. The spiritual lessons embodied in the cold fact of the captivity may well be pondered by the church today, which too often has a form of godliness but without its power. Worldly saints do not capture the world but become instead the world's captives.

History is littered with rulers and their rivals brought down by poison.

it is impossible for a free people to govern a dependent people despotically without endangering its own freedom.

Anything out of control is always a potential threat, and always calls up moral, legal, and aesthetic powers to discipline it. The signs of the subordinate out of control terrify the forces of order (whether moral, legal, or aesthetic), for they constitute a constant reminder of both how fragile social control is and how it is resented; they demonstrate how escaping social control, even momentarily, produces a sense of freedom.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human life

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love. They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.