Quotes About Power

Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good.

Under the storms, sun becomes a god!

We admire the castles, because we admire the security!

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!

What love can achieve, nothing else can achieve!

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is.

Words derive their power from the original word.

The most powerful form of prayer, and the one which can virtually gain all things and which is the worthiest work of all, is that which flows from a free mind. The freer the mind is, the more powerful and worthy, the more useful, praiseworthy and perfect the prayer and the work become. A free mind can achieve all things.

Now, you might say: how can this be? I cannot feel his presence in any way. Listen to this. Sensing his presence is not in your power but in his. He will show himself when it suits him to do so, and he can also remain hidden if that is his wish. This is what Christ meant when he said to Nicodemus: 'The spirit breathes where it will: you hear its voice but do not know where it comes from, or where it is going' (John 3:8).

the man who sat naked in his tub said to Alexander the Great, who ruled the whole world: 'I am a greater lord than you are, for I have spurned more than you have seized. What you think it is a great thing to possess, is too trivial for me to scorn.

And St. Paul knew this well when he said, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39)

God did nothing more than this: he willed it, he spoke it, and it was.

Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

It's good to be the king.

Comedy is a very powerful component of life. It has the most to say about the human condition because if you laugh you can get by. You can struggle when things are bad if you have a sense of humor. Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long goodbye. It's a defense against unhappiness and depression.

Comedy brings religious persecutors, dictators, and tyrants to their knees faster than any other weapon.

the leader of a so-called democracy who ignores the will of the majority or fears criticism of his actions must resort to slinking in the shadows and to tightly controlling access to himself and to his ministers. Such is Stephen Harper's government.