Power Quotes

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.

There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.

The sun has substance, shape, movement, radiance, heat and generative power; and these qualities all emanate from itself without its diminution.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

The heart of a statesman must be in his head.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I love power like a musician loves music.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

All authority is in the throne; and what is the throne? This wooden frame covered with velvet? No, I am the throne.