Quotes About Power

Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.

For the kingís word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.

There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

There is an evil I have seen under the sun—an error that proceeds from the ruler:

Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.

I have seen slaves on horseback, while princes go on foot like slaves.

Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

Behold, it is Solomonís carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel.

Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.

against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,

against every ship of Tarshish, and against every stately vessel.

the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.

Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.

ëLet us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.í

the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.