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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
Sep 10, 2025
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.
Helplessness is a mighty power.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims
Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.
We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.
The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Use every letter you write Every conversation you have Every meeting you attend To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams Affirm to others the vision of the world you want
Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.
The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.
I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.
Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.