Quotes About Power

your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)

Her ambition was an extremely distressing condition. She sought power the way a superstitious man might look for a four-leaf clover.

Senator Jordan's only response had been made upon a single mimeographed sheet holding a single sentence. Distributed to all press agencies, it said: "How long will you let this man use you and trick you?" Senator

By all the eagle in thee, all the dove.

The objectivity we sought was the power to recollect — if not in tranquillity, at least in 'dispassion' and this power is rarely granted except to the imaginative writer.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

As private parts to the gods are we! They play with us for their sport. (Lord Melchett, Blackadder.)

ever. Today I saw our revolution more solid and invincible than ever.

We are not called to give lifestyle tips or the self-help plumbing that today's worldly men and women crave. The Bible says the gospel is the "power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." (Romans 1:16b), so we must proclaim it.

You may think that you are just one "voice" and that your witness doesn't matter. But if Jesus is the Word your voice brings - and if He is living in you and you know Him - then your witness is mighty to cast down strongholds and lead dying sinners to salvation.

Capitalism, Marx said, never went beyond those economic models where a few dominate a majority. Capitalism just replaced the dichotomies of master/slave and lord/serf with a new one. A dominating and exploiting minority was still there, but it had a new name: employers.

the market has been anthropomorphized. It is not created by us but creates us. That's what the market distates. If Jesus can talk to you, the market can talk to you.

Richard D. Wolff

Connoisseurs need not be aristocratic, but must adopt or reject people and tastes according to a patrician sensibility that ignores the worlds of productivity and profit. Money is esteemed as a means to acquire what they value, but despised as a provider of power, showiness, luxury, over-eating or barbarous hobbies.

music is power and musicians wield control. It is music that can pierce the heart in an instant and cleanse the soul. Music can calm and it can excite. It can make a strong man weep and a sad man smile. That is power, and we hold that power in our hands.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

The critical race theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.

The power of knowing the future could corrupt even the most noble heart. - Marcus Bennett

With the thought of power, men's hearts darken, with the vision of wealth, morals and values crumble, but that all be comes secondary to love. - Shamus Hennicot

Yet the lure of the ideal is also, often imperceptibly, haunted by misgiving, even anxiety. Not only is whiteness as absence impossible, it is not wholly desirable. To relinquish dirt and stains, corporeality and thingness, is also to relinquish both the pleasures of the flesh and the reproduction upon which whiteness as racial power depends. To be nothing is to be dead, something

15. "Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."--

Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action.