Quotes About Power

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.