Quotes About Power

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

The obstacle: for the improvement of the capacity for experience and use generally involves a decrease in man's power to relate—that power which alone can enable man to live in the spirit.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..

She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Good form and technique is a means to an end - for example, your punches will be more powerful if done right - rather than the objective itself.

has been founded on a good beating.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

My wife and I own a cat we call Eureka, after Dorothy's cat in the fourth Oz book. In Eureka's dim mind she must be a kind of polytheist, fed as she is by the two of us, and by neighbors when we take a trip; surrounded on all sides by giant creatures who move about on their hind legs to do things utterly beyond her ken. But we who are her gods have a power of speculation far greater than that of her tiny feline brain.

Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus

Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Anthony, do you want a police force or a campaign ad?

The nomad had the age-old God-given way of life to offer, the way of Abel. The sons of Cain -for it was Cain who built the first villages -had possessions and power.

among the Arabs a gifted poet was like a multitude of men, for his verses were repeated from mouth to mouth. If good, he was a power for good; if evil, a power for evil

When exercising leadership, you risk getting marginalized, diverted, attacked, or seduced. Regardless of the form, however, the point is the same. When people resist adaptive work, their goal is to shut down those who exercise leadership in order to preserve what they have.

Seduction, marginalization, diversion, and attack all serve a function.

It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

A mighty fortress is our God,A bulwark never failing.Our helper He amid the floodOf mortal ills prevailing.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressor

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.