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Power Quotes
"Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous."
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"Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones."
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"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased."
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"Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything."
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"If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there."
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"In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power."
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"She would be taking the company jet to fly to Los Angeles to visit with the Light Fae Queen, Tatiana, for a week. The diplomatic deal stated that each of the seven U.S. demesne leaders was supposed to send a family member to another demesne to visit for a week to foster good will and peace among the desmesnes'. The whole concept came from a Medieval practice of nobles sending their children to live in other nobles' households as hostages."
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
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"You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood."
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"I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power."
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"Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection."
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"Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express."
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"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist."
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"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
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"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."
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"If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power."
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"Personal power depends on the power of imagination, personal achievement depends on commitment and conviction."
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"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good."
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"Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit."
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"I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power."
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"Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free."
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"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
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"There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch, except by bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force? The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account. They had played a similar trick with the instinct of parenthood. The family could not actually be abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be fond of their children, in almost the old-fashioned way."
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"In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis."
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