Quotes About Power

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me!

Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.