Quotes about Power

There is one voice we never hear. God does not speak in the whole book of Lamentations.11 Heaven is silent. Which does not necessarily mean that heaven is deaf or blind. We shall consider later what Kathleen O'Connor calls 'the power of the missing voice'.

There's no light bulb lit. I half wonder if there's any power to light one. Aunt Alice? A round goblin comes out of the darkness of the hallway.

For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so powerfully intervened; that human justice from which he had snatched its prey; all those tigers whose jaws perforce remained empty; those myrmidons, those judges, those executioners, all that royal power which he, poor, insignificant being, had foiled with the power of God.

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them.

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.