Quotes about power
power passing-away speech
Speeches pass away, but acts remain. Napoleon Bonaparte
powerful yield public-opinion
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
power arrogant weakness
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
power likes
To negotiate is not to do as one likes.
power geography policy
The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.
power chance combination
Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
power law moral
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
power world path
The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
power order misunderstood
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.
power justice
There is no strength without justice.
power overcoming obstacles
God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.
power men political
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
power men personality
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
power political benches
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
power shapes incidents
International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.
power europe empires
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
power common-sense common
High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
power hypocrisy politics
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
power men hair
Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.
power vienna
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
power politics public-opinion
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
power men great-men
Great men are never cruel without necessity.
power men animal
Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.
power men political
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
power stones anarchy
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
powerful believe years
If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can. Norman Mailer
powerful simple knowing
We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day. Orlando Bloom
powerful rights turkeys
Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is. Orhan Pamuk
power men he-man
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. Orison Swett Marden
powerful world sanctuary
The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary. Omar Bongo
powerful women mean
When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks... Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
powerful prize
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
powerful thinking people
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!