Quotes about Power

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

The market needs a super car with no excuses.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.