Quotes About Power

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Celebrities are the doormats to power.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

If Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat