Quotes About Power

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

Unsent letters carry a kind of cruelty. A letter is written as a space shared by two people; by not sending it, its writer claims the power to include and exclude the recipient simultaneously. Out of cowardice or control an act is performed in the name of caring or discretion. Unsent letters should never be written. But what difference is there between an unsent and an unwritten letter? The truth is already there. Self-imposed silence speaks, too, though not to communicate but to punish.

People were the most dangerous animals in the world, Teacher Gu thought of telling his daughter during that visit ten years ago; stay small and unimportant, like a grain of dust,

Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?

In ancient tales she could have been one of those divine creatures who borrow their mothers' wombs to enter the mortal world and make a name for themselves, as a heroine or a devil, depending on the intention of the heavenly powers.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

When you speak, it should be as if Infinity is speaking.

For every beautiful thing, you have to pass through a valley of hardship. There is no liberation without labor. There is no freedom which is free. To create in you the power to create the intelligence which will give you power to be effective in your own living and give you satisfaction in your own joy, you have to work for it, you have to earn it. E

The Gong has the power of Creativity. Absolutely it is a therapy. And it can expand the mind beyond its horizon

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

We don't want a fight, but business dictates we can't be made into fools.

Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.

A ciência é o poder do ser humano.

But how could Yoel, of all people, not realize that Gush Emunim, with its vision of unrestrained power and occupation, was repeating the very sin of arrogance that had led to Yom Kippur?

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.

Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.

If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.