Quotes about Power
I'm in charge of all this—I run this universe!
— Eugene Peterson
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
— Eugene Peterson
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
— Euripides
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
— Euripides
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the chanting of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
— Euripides
We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh.
— Thomas Becket
All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Being reminded about the incredible power of God's love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.
— Rick Warren
If you or the devil or anyone else could remove you from Christ's hand, then that entity would be greater than Christ, and the eternal life He gave you would not be eternal at all. That's an impossible equation.
— Tony Evans
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
— Cicero
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.
— Pierre Corneille