Quotes about Power
The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.
— Joel Osteen
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
— Henri Nouwen
To overcome in battle, and subdue nations, and bring home spoils with infinite man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch 0f human glory.
— John Milton
Laws are inoperative in war
— Cicero
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
— Walt Whitman
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
— Lily Tomlin
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