Quotes about Power

The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order. This power is called imagination.

Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.

Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye. The policy has been the same in many cases of religion.

The circumstances of life do not have the power to turn us away from Jesus or to make us love him more—those are the jurisdiction of the heart.

This was Paul's joy in suffering and shame: "that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead" (Philippians 3:10—11). Notice how this affects your shameful past. It will still hurt at times, but shame will lose its power. The very event that made you an outcast is the one that gives you insight into the mind of Christ.

Since the desires for power and control are in every heart, you don't have to look overseas for lawless brutality. It happens every day between parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives. Where there is injustice, shame will be part of its fallout.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.