Quotes About Power

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.

To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or regulations which enabled the individual to challenge authority or the state.

In the mind of the ordinary peasant the Tsar was not just a kingly ruler but a god on earth. He thought of him as a father-figure who knew all the peasants personally by name, understood their problems in all their minute details, and, if it were not for the evil boyars who surrounded him, would satisfy their demands. Hence the peasant tradition of sending direct appeals to the Tsar.

Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

If the power to tax is the power to destroy then the power to profit is the power to create.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift. A glorious gift.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.

Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.