You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
“Asking questions gives you significant power.”
You are only as powerful as your mentors.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
''As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.''
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. it never did and it never will.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.