Quotes About Power

Whatever you think or feel in your head, the body will follow. It is ready to take orders from the brain or the central nervous system.

When a corrupt ruler is given the seat of power, he will end up neglecting all the virtues of a true leader.

You have been controlled at work or school than in any relationship.

Your hands can feed you while your mouth can kill you if you let your tongue run wild in front of your enemies.

Your silence is at its weakest when you lose the desire to climb the ladder of love, wealth, health, power, and knowledge.

Creation takes place through words, a series of 'And God Saids' bringing each new stage of life into being. Language is God's divine power made manifest in the world.

As John Wesley once said, "God does nothing but in answer to prayer."1* Prayer is therefore not an option for mankind but a necessity. If we don't pray, heaven cannot interfere in earth's affairs. It is imperative that we take responsibility for the earth and determine what happens here by our prayer lives.

the most awesome power every human being possesses: the power to influence earth from heaven through prayer.

fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:6-7). A

Each of us was conceived by destiny, produced by purpose and packaged with potential to live a meaningful, fulfilling life. Deep within you lies a seed of greatness waiting to be germinated... be provoked to unbridle the silent wealth of power that is screaming for exposure.

The ultimate goal of all personal and national authority is freedom

What is invisible and yet still lives is more powerful than monuments or words engraved in stone.

Mastery" is an inappropriate image for depicting epistemological success; knowledge is an exercise not of power but of virtue.

This sets the wheels of government moving in reverse gear; the servant becomes the master, and the right to earn a living becomes subject to the servant's whim and caprice as he professes to apply some vague and variable statutory standard.

The Court has "overseen and sanctioned the growth of an administrative system that concentrates the power to make laws and the power to enforce them in the hands of a vast and unaccountable administrative apparatus that finds no comfortable home in our constitutional structure,

It's hard to count the ways in which the administrative or regulatory state overturns, abolishes, and usurps the Constitution.

And if Congress can't delegate the legislative power that the Constitution gives it, it certainly cannot delegate power that the Constitution doesn't give it, such as the power to hand out selective exemptions from its laws, as agencies do when they grant waivers.35

As James Madison put it, because men are not angels—because they can (and do) rob, rape, kill, and conquer—they need a government to restrain and protect them, an "institution to make people do their duty.

But since such an institution is made up of imperfect human beings with the same unruly passions as anyone else, "In framing a government of men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."3

There is nothing of democratic self-government in the "command" of this newly hatched, elitist administrative state, of course.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. By means of words can a man deal with the world on equal terms. And the word is sacred. A man's name is his own; he can keep it or give it away as he likes.

When you live in reaction you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.

A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.