Quotes About Power

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants.'

Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the source of spiritual power that will give you and me the assurance that we have nothing to fear.

A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.