Quotes About Power

you will tell me roundly that God's reach is longer than man's." "It had better be," said Brother Cadfael very solemnly, "otherwise we are all lost." Turn the page to continue reading from the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael

Kings and princes of the church may find shepherds and serfs preferred before them

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay.

Robert Beaumont, earl of Leicester

magisterially

Kings and abbots are also men, and can fall to temptation.

Papa Ubu: Captain Bordure, I've decided to make you Duke of Lithuania.

Power beyond reason created a lasting irrationality.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

From the early days of humanity, dogmatic theology, law, ethics, and science in its infancy, were the monopolies of one class and the source of their power.4

Law was always made by the few and in general for the purpose of preserving the "existing order," or for the reestablishment of the old order and the punishment of the offenders against

This era is essentially an industrial era. To produce we have to have: (1) raw material or soil; (2) instruments for production—tools and machines; and (3) the application of power.

She was powered by a coal-fired, 350-hp steam engine, capable of driving her at speeds up to 10.2

They are often of hurricane intensity and with gust velocities sometimes attaining to 150 to 200 miles per hour.

The rollers that raced shoreward were perhaps 40 feet high, maybe more.

close to 80 knots out of the southwest

This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The results are impressive.

This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The

be made of the wind's actual speed

O iron nerve to true occasion true,O fall'n at length, that tower of strengthWhich stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

For man is man and master of his fate.

Man's word is God in man.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.