Quotes About Power

Politik« würde für uns also heißen: Streben nach Machtanteil oder nach Beeinflussung der Machtverteilung, sei es zwischen Staaten, sei es innerhalb eines Staates zwischen den Menschengruppen, die er umschließt.

Renaissance of Roman Law was overcome by the power of the great legal corporations

A language is a dialect with an army and navy.

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Brands are no longer the property of the companies, but of the consumers, and consumer power over brands is enormous.

Let the storm rage ever stronger!

Lies—there you have the religion of slaves and taskmasters.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.

Heaven is always taken by storm.

There are no wizards and no spells. Just men and women and money and the earth the way it always was.

A woman's mind and spirit are no better than those of the man she lies under in the night.

What the devil's a king but a man, or a queen but a woman?

If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods, Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless Against them while they stand so.

A waterfall hurdled its crazed parabola between gray rocks, flying into a stifled scream of motion far below.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

The important thing for you to remember is that it does not matter in the least how you got the idea or where it came from. You may never have met a professional hypnotist. You may never have been formally hypnotized. But if you have accepted an idea - from yourself, your teachers, your parents, friends, advertisements, from any other source - and further, if you are firmly convinced that idea is true, it has the same power over you as the hypnotist's words have over the hypnotized subject.

Knowledge Gives You Power.

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace," said the Caliph Abd al-Rahman I, the eighth-century ruler of Iberia, "beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot; they amount to fourteen.

God created man "a little lower than the angels" and "gave him dominion"; that God created man in his own image. If we really believe in an all-wise, all-powerful, all-loving Creator, then we are in a position to draw some logical conclusions about that which he has created—man. In the first place such an all-wise and all powerful Creator would not turn out inferior products, any more than a master painter would paint inferior canvases.

For it is with the thinking part of our personality that we draw conclusions, and select the "goal images" that we shall concentrate upon. The minute that we change our minds and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses its power over us.