What Is Power Quotes

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it - two power - crazed magicians killed, a hundred power - crazed magicians saved.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.