Quotes about Power

You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.

When you read that familiar verse you come to the conclusion that the enemy comes in like a flood. But I've got news for you: the flood is the Holy Ghost, not the devil.You

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.

As long as there is a Church, there will be little Torquemadas