Quotes About Power

Friedrich von Bernhardi, one of Germany's most influential military thinkers. Bernhardi believed the German people were destined to become the master race, who would prevail over lesser breeds and rule the world.

In America's 'nonlinear war', with no frontline or clear political or territorial goals, the number of enemy killed apparently revealed who was 'winning'. 'The military kill' became 'the prime target, simply because the essential political target is too elusive for us, or worse, because we do not understand its importance'.

Respected political and military leaders saw the world as a Darwinian battleground, where the fittest race would emerge triumphant from a savage fight to the death.

those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Children are born pantheists. They see reality unshaped by culture or language. The whole world seems divine to them, full of mystery and power.

When we arrive at the end of our own strength it is not defeat, but the start of tapping into God's boundless resources. It is when we are weak that we are strong in God.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

It has been said, "It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

Don't pray for the persecution to stop! We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry, but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power. This is true freedom!

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

I have a message for your daughter," said Cale. "I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by." And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.

In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It was a collective death and not a matter of bravery or even strength, and once it was down it was finished as a battle.

and what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?

La fuerza es tan despiadada con quien la posee como con quien la sufre: a este lo aplasta, al primero lo envenena.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed.

Em eterno sobressalto dorme a cabeca que usa a coroa

Regardless of where you stood on Trump, his victory disrupted the status quo, brought anger out of the shadows and barbed human relations.

You don't need more than a handful of exercises to build a bigger, stronger body. In fact, to get started, you need to learn only four basic lifts—squat, bench press, overhead press, and deadlift

Even more astonishing, perhaps, is that 1?—a real number to a real power—has an infinity of distinct complex values, i.e., Only for n = 0, the principal value, is 1? real.

You don't need special traits, special genes, or special motivation to write a lot. You don't need to want to write--people rarely feel like doing unpleasant tasks that lack deadlines--so don't wait until you feel like it. Productive writing comes from harnessing the power of habit, and habits come from repetition p.129

And power will always consume itself.