Quotes About Power

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

A conquering army on the border will not be halted by the power of eloquence.

Politics ruins the character.

Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak—it already knows how to ride.

The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions—that was the error of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Politics is no exact science.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Hence, being thus suited to the Age which had begotten her, being thus its creature and its likeness, she bad thriven in it as the snake thrives in hot and poisonous waters which for all purer and healthier things breed death.

I only know that a man who has the strength of the lion very often has also the tender touch of the dove.

God is doing for me what I could not do for myself. It is all an incomparably beautiful mystery.

Run slowly, horses of the night.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

The gods have their own rules.

I am Actaeon: recognize your master!

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.

the transgressions of the Bush era, rather than being denounced as unworthy of our Constitution, have been institutionalized.

OSBOURNE!' he shouted. 'YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO YOURSELF AND TO THIS SCHOOL. BRING ME A SHOE.' The room went so quiet you could have heard a mouse fart.

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Folk och härar han utplånar med sin vredes svärd. Domens tunga klockor dånar över mänskans värld.

En flykting, jagad som ett djur fast kungalik. En konung över folk i bur och folk av lik.

History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.