A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for power, they would be ineffective. Their task is not "seize power" (those who use this term show that they s...
The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be ...
You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to ba...
Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.
Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.
The Resurrection is not a single event, but a loosening of God's power and light into the earth and history that continues to alter all things, infusing them with the grace and power of God's own holiness. It is as though a door was opened, and what ...
It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.
Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do regrettable things as a result of our own circumstances, and new rituals are frequently invented in response to new circu...
Barnhardt: One thing, Mr. Klaatu: suppose this group should reject your proposals. What is the alternative? Klaatu: I'm afraid there is no alternative. In such a case, the planet Earth would have to be... eliminated Barnhardt: Such power exists? Klaa...
The power of writing supernaturally set things into motion.
Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.
Words have the power to make things true if they're said right.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
