Quotes About Power

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

The power of Christ compels you!

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.