Quotes About Power

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

All the great things are simple.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

I wish people had half the honor of dragons.

On my honor, I swear to you, that from my first day in office to the last breath I draw, I will do everything in my power to make you proud of your government.

Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.