Quotes About Power

commander-in-chief of the British army,

He was commander-in-chief because his father was king.

In truth, though, Villeneuve was still in command, and still in Cadiz.

The country was still a republic, but once again with a dynastic family at its head.

Napoleon was now one of the crowned heads of Europe.

he was still General Bonaparte, the revolutionary soldier who had seized power by force of arms

The Royal Sovereign reeled under the impact, heeling 'two strakes out of the water

in return for Joseph resigning his right to succeed him as Emperor of France.

Caesar had had trouble with the currents off the English coast. Napoleon would too.

But Napoleon saw everything in military terms.

He found it hard to understand that the sea was a law unto itself, beyond anyone's control.

It did not go to King George III.

at the expiration of eighteen minutes, the explosion seemed to raise her bodily about six feet;

It was everything Napoleon could have wished for, everything he had ever wanted,

He was the chief of all the horses; and when he snorted, it was a flash of lightning and his eyes were like the sunset star.

My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

A good nation I will make live. This the nation above has said. They have given me the power to make over.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

The question that remains to be answered, they went on, is whether that reading class will have the "power and prestige associated with an increasingly rare form of cultural capital" or will be viewed as the eccentric practitioners of "an increasingly arcane hobby.

Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances—over nature, over time and distance, over one another.

United States, along with Canada and the United Kingdom, has become a "plutonomy" where "economic growth is powered by, and largely consumed by, the wealthy few." Economists

Rather than allowing technology to control us, Mumford implied, we can control technology—if only we can muster the courage to exert the full power of our free will over the machines we make.

as a utility served more customers, it would become more efficient, allowing it to cut the cost of power further and in turn attract even more customers.