Quotes About Power

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

War can only be abolished through war ... in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.

We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib people remind us of what we lost trying to get up in the world. See, in the old days, according to Granny Straker, the more you left behind the old ways, the more acceptable you were to the powerful people in the government and the churches who had the power to change a black person's life.

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button." --Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Satan Interview, 1998

Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

That was one of the ways she established social dominance over people: she would sit and watch until she frightened them, and then suddenly be friendly and free and just as charming as she had been formidable

Her long legs struck forcefully forward as if she pressed her toes watchfully on the accelerator of the universe.

A champion is strong, not just by showing it physically -but mentally, cause to achieve and become at the level he is, he needs a brain to analyze it, right?

I have the power to heal myself. You have the power to heal yourself. Together we have the power to heal the world.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

Täydellinen Ihminen on jumalan kaltainen. Vaikka suuret suot palaisivat, ne eivät pystyisi polttamaan häntä; vaikka nopeat salamat iskisivät vuoria halki ja tuuli kuohuttaisi merta, ne eivät säikäyttäisi häntä. Koska hän on sellainen, hän ratsastaa pilvillä ja usvalla, satuloi auuringon ja kuun ja vaeltaa Neljän Meren rajojen ulkopuolelle. Kuolema ja elämä eivät pysty häntä muuttamaan, saati sitten hyödyn ja vahingon ajatukset.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." —Phillips Brooks

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

When everything seems to be coming unglued, He whispers, "Stop. Be still. Listen to Me, and be sure that I can do anything that needs to be done.

Even in the most difficult times in our lives, faith is built by stopping and looking at the wonder of God's power and grace in the expanse and intricacies of nature.

the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The same locomotive moving at 100 miles per hour can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick. That