Quotes About Power

Instead of being described in the investment banking section, J.P. Morgan could as easily have been included in this section, as the last of the Dinosaurs, and perhaps the greatest and most powerful of them all.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little.

As Hobbes remarked, in war, force and fraud are the cardinal virtues, and he regarded international relations as always potentially a condition of war. Cavour, one of the creators of a united Italy in the nineteenth century, is reported as remarking: 'What scoundrels we would be if we had done for ourselves what we have done for our country.

The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

Yes' is a very powerful word. It's like opening a door. It's like fanning a flame. It's the most powerful word in the world.

Prayer is releasing the energies of God. For prayer is asking God to do what we cannot do ourselves. - Selected

I would rather have written the hymns of Wesley's than to have the fame of all the kings that ever sat on earth; it is more glorious, it has more power in it.

Nobody has any rights unless they've got a machine gun.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

As long as your knife keeps pretending it's a mini sun, we should be all right.

In case it's escaped your notice, that bastard has tried to kill me twice now. How about using your considerable power to track him down rather than trying to unravel my unremarkable past?

I intend to make you scream for me, Riley.

The wild magic does a lot of things it shouldn't in this reservation.

The government, Lincoln suggests, should intervene to protect individuals from other individuals—to redress the natural consequences of inequalities of power.

You have to let her know you're in charge!" "I thought I was!" Typical female. The mare had only let him THINK he was in charge.

Necesito sentir que tengo el control. —Ah, ahora me has dado un desafío. — Él dio un paso más cerca. — Para hacerte perder el control.

Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we`re gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring.

As people begin to feel unsafe, they start down one of two unhealthy paths. They move either to silence (withholding meaning from the pool) or to violence (trying to force meaning in the pool).

He didn't say a word, but he grew coldly, murderously furious.

Dreamers have a hidden strength that is often mistaken for meekness by those who have power." The

Cayce told one individual, "Know that thoughts are things, and as their currents run they may become crimes or miracles." (2419-1)

Even Magic has its limits' -Malcolm from TRIO Book one Heroes