Quotes About Power

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

Guinevere is not the Morgan type, where she's sultry and she knows she has this incredible female energy that she can use and utilize, and she's not necessarily used to having this power over men.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

We have a lot of issues with corporate power that have to be addressed. My plan takes us further and it would do the job.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.