Quotes about Power

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations. I, however, have limitations. In my desire to provide an ultimate protection for my people, I forbid a constitution.

A certain amount of killing has always been an arm of business

When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. —JOHN 1:5 (ESV)

But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.

Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God's forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.