Quotes About Power

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

I think there's no question Comey abused power.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.