Quotes About Power

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

He can do most who has most power.

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.

First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

God is so angry. All that power, and so mean with it.

Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.