Quotes About Power

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once belived they were eternal.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

la Armada Invencible; ya saben, cañonazo va y ola viene y todo a tomar por saco, con aquel pulso fatal entre nuestro buen Rey Don Felipe Segundo y esa arpía pelirroja que se llamó Isabel de Inglaterra, amparo de protestantes, hideputas y piratas, más conocida por la Reina Virgen, aunque maldito si puede uno imaginarse virgen de qué

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

The mainstreaming of African American history was a byproduct of the long black freedom struggle, the early black history movement, and the black student movement of the Black Power era.

But in Kemal, perhaps because some scepticism in him – an underlying boredom with government – kept him from a full addiction to power, continual drinking became alcoholism.

Most kids are never told about one of life's most effective weapons: when to get pissed as hell. Show it. And then mean it.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

War was invented was to allow men who never grew up to do the things they always wanted to do as kids: mess up their rooms, wear funny clothes, sleep in a room with a lot of strangers, dirty up other people's houses and then take their toys away.

George Orwell has written that "political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."1

Schoenhals calls the rigidity of tifa a "form of power." This simple claim has greater profundity than may appear on the surface. In an obvious sense, it means that holders of power can insist that people say certain things in certain ways and expect that, over time, thought and behavior will follow.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power." —MARK ZUCKERBERG

China's demand for energy is expected to increase 150% by the year 2020.

When Pharaoh pursued Israel into the sea, it cost Egypt 600 chariots, 50,000 horsemen, and 200,000 footmen; not to mention that Egypt has NEVER regained the power and grandeur she enjoyed before touching God's anointed.

Don't make Satan bigger than God, darkness greater than light, and evil greater than good.

Satan cannot compare to God, and he never will.

The Breath of God brings life to dead things.

In short, a nation in covenant with God is assured peace, prosperity and power. In sharp contrast, look at what befalls the nation that abandons the covenant.

you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit." – LEVITICUS 26:16-20

They have possessions without power, wealth without true worship, and prosperity without God's presence!

When God's Spirit moves mightily, there will be shouting, rejoicing and holy noise.