Quotes About Power

Tell me how you wish me to deal with these enemies of yours, for they are no able to camp, and I will deliver them in your hands in whatever manner you wish.' Modern accounts invariably include the story of how dal Verme sent Hawkwood a fox in a cage, to say that he had the clever Englishman trapped. -Jacopo dal Verme to Giangaleazzo Visconti

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer. However the influence of the Holy Spirit may be set at nought, and run down by many, it will be found upon trial, that all means which we can use, without it, will be ineffectual. If a temple is raised for God in the heathen world, it will not be by might, nor by power, nor by the authority of the magistrate, or the eloquence of the orator; but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

Words cut deeper than knives

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,Kings would not play at.

I am monarch of all I survey,My right there is none to dispute.

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.

Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.

Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God"...

Stalin never forgot or forgave. He once told a Russian writer that Ivan the Terrible had not been ruthless enough because he left too many enemies alive.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale." John Kenneth Galbraith quoted in Money and Power

Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Emerson

atomic war n. thermonuclear or nuclear exchange

Mongols were uneducated tribesmen who believed in enjoying life's simpler pleasures. Ghengis Khan expressed their philosophy most succinctly. 'Happiness,' he is recorded to have said, 'lies in conquering one's enemies, driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savouring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like. Edward, First Baron Thurlow

The master of Delhi, they knew, was always the master of Hindustan.