Quotes About Power

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

United States had committed a "number of sins" in prerevolutionary Cuba, including turning the island into "the whorehouse of the U.S.

The law told people what to do but gave them no power to do it. It was given to reveal sin, not to be a savior.

the greatest tyrants over women are women.

She will destroy us all. I did not escape, either. She will destroy us all, in time.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ?

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

Schumacher posited that people must make a serious shift in what they consider to be wealth and progress: "Ever-bigger machines, entailing ever-bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever-greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom.

one small decision has the power to make a real difference for the economy

The beast he had fought, that ravens upon others, slept underneath my chair.

In Washington, truth is never told in daylight hours or across a desk

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language," Hunter wrote. "I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

Tajna osvajanja žena leži u prora?unatom ignoriranju.

Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him.

Oh, how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness when, if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!