Quotes
Quotes about Power
When thus the heart is in a vein
Of tender thought, the simplest strain
Can touch it with peculiar power.
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,--a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
There is nothing so powerful as truth,--and often nothing so strange.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
The power of thought,--the magic of the mind!
And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong.
That all-softening, overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul,--the dinner bell.
Oh for a forty-parson power!
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.
You shall not pile, with servile toil,
Your monuments upon my breast,
Nor yet within the common soil
Lay down the wreck of power to rest,
Where man can boast that he has trod
On him that was "the scourge of God."
How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
The English Bible,--a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure
For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them.
Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
Genius hath electric power
Which earth can never tame,
Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower,
Its flash is still the same.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Ye rigid Plowmen! Bear in mind
Your labor is for future hours.
Advance! spare not! nor look behind!
Plow deep and straight with all your powers!
I repeat ... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
You can not possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
