Quotes About Power

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Its too hard to make a Lion Angry... He really doesn't care what others do around him... but if you do hurt His PRIDE... He wont let you live another Day

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.