Quotes about Power

Christianity is either supernatural or nothing at all.

I may not believe in long-drawn rituals but I believe in a supernatural force that gives me strength. This can take the form of my mum, my father, my husband or my failures.

I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully.

The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

the irreconcilable antitheses of death and life, the world and the kingdom of heaven, and then again to see them both as one, before he can evaluate the concealed power of this unique spirit. For 'this was a man and to be a man means to be a fighter'.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

Therefore God's universal law gave to the man despotic power over his female in due awe, not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.