Quotes about Power
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
— St. Augustine
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
— GK Chesterton
But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.
— Harry S. Truman
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
— Livy
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
— Madeleine Albright
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
— Margaret Atwood
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
— Thomas Paine
Spiritual battles have greater consequences than earthly wars.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
— James Madison
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
— James Allen