Quotes About Power

The joke is mightier than the sword.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

Artists are never wrong when they paint revolution with the beautiful dress and with the sword. On the horse or by foot. Because revolution is a woman.

The Bible is referred to in scripture as the sword of the spirit.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

Considering that police have life and death power over the public they are sworn to protect and serve, we have the right to expect public accountability to ensure that we can protect ourselves, as well.

Syllables govern the world.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

My election to the position of president is the symbol of the greatness of Indian democracy.

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

I've got a Kanji symbol on my shoulder; it's for my son and means 'strength and power.' I have my son and daughter's names, Dominik and Aalyah, written on the inside of the left and right biceps, too.

I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining power of the mainstream media.

When the BSP comes to power, modern hospitals and community centers will be constructed especially in the name of Parshuram - considered the symbol and pride of the Brahmin community- as well as an icon of other religions and castes.

When mobile phones came out, they were a status symbol. Now the status symbol is having someone to manage your mobile phone for you.

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Hapy, the ancient god of the Nile, depicted at Dendera with Cleopatra, is typically shown with breasts - symbolism that demonstrated how the life-giving gifts of Egypt's river artery come only when the power of both female and male was combined.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.