Quotes about Power
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
- George Clooney
Influence is not government.
- George Washington
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
- Mark Twain
The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.
- Rick Warren
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
- George Washington
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt
You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
- Hudson Taylor
It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
- NT Wright
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
- Albert Camus
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
- Heinrich Heine
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
- Woodrow Wilson