Quotes About Power

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.

When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.