Quotes About Power

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. - Cersei Lannister

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvelous.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

There is no power shortage in heaven, and God is never in a recession. But His grace is sufficient to meet every need.

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

The roar of an angry crowd is much louder than that of a lion.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food

Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. That's where your freedom is, that's where all your power is.

You are free to do as you are told. For freedom, is a figment of your imagination. But imagination is where it all starts. So MAKE freedom.

Just because we are free to do what we wants does not mean we will ever be self-assured. Having the power to determine action without restraint does not mean we are free to do anything we want; it means we are free to do what we should, given the situation. Living in the present is as beautiful as it gets!

Freedom of speech can be just as deadly as the right to bear arms.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor and success. When we cling to personal power and success, when we are afraid of loosing social status, then we are in some way denying our humanity; we become slaves to our own needs, we are not free.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.