Quotes About Power

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.