Quotes about Power
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
— Frank Herbert
The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it.
— JI Packer
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.
— Paul David Tripp
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
— Peter Drucker
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
— Robert Frost
Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.
— George H. W. Bush
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
— St. John Chrysostom
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
— Edmund Burke
Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.
— John Adams
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!
— John Donne