Quotes About Power

All the athletic exercises in the world are no power to the individual unless he compel those bars and dumbbells to yield to him and strengthen muscle; the power for which he himself pays in effort.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

What power there is in the word my.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.

is not altogether a matter of fanfaronade when the American citizen calls himself a "sovereign." A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He

Capital is force, human energy stored or accumulated, and

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy. An

Who dares say that he is not the friend of the poor man? Who dares say that he is the friend of the employer? I

unless restrained by checks and guarantees. There is an insolence of wealth, as there is an insolence of rank. A plutocracy might be even far worse than an aristocracy. Aristocrats

plutocracy would be a civil organization in which the power resides in wealth, in

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

They say stars have greatest influences when they are in conjunction with the sun; then sure the graces of a saint should never work more powerfully than in prayer, for then he is in the nearest conjunction and communion with God. That

Be strong in the faith of this truth, make it an article of your creed; with the same faith you believe that there is a God, believe also this God's almighty power is thy sure friend, and then improve it to thy best and advantage.

Castle thyself within the power and promise of God for thy assistance and protection.

But he maintains the power of holiness that exerts this vigorously in his daily walking; as he the power of natural life, in whom the principle of life seated in the heart empowers every member to do its particular office in the body strenuously. Thus walked the primitive Christians, 'in whose veins,' saith Jerome, 'the blood of Christ was yet warm.

Indeed, God intended, by this way of rec onciling poor sinners to himself, to make work for angels and saints to admire the mystery of his wisdom, power, and love therein, to everlasting.