Quotes about power
powerful men class
Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success. James F. Cooper
powerful commitment simple
The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help. Napoleon Hill
powerful writing goal
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
powerful persistence desire
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
powerful history enemy
The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies. Napoleon Bonaparte
power may able
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
power government promise
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
power medicine political
Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.
power opportunity giving
Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.
power simple political
In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.
power government spy
It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.
powerful men views
Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
power law justice
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
powerful fear army
For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
power political politics
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
power men should-have
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
power should-have voice
For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
power judging majority
In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
power people sovereignty
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
power justice
There is no power without justice.
power development civilisation
A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.
power passing-away speech
Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
powerful yield public-opinion
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
power arrogant weakness
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
power likes
To negotiate is not to do as one likes.
power geography policy
The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.
power chance combination
Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
power law moral
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
power world path
The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
power order misunderstood
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.
power justice
There is no strength without justice.
power overcoming obstacles
God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.
power men political
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.