Quotes About Power

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

I am The Game and I am that damn good!

Good words cool more than cold water.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

If you can only believe! If you will only believe! Then nothing, nothing, will be impossible for you! That is the truth and the Gospel, and it is wonderful. It's the good news.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.