Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Unknown
As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.
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James Rozoff
It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Otto Von Bismarck
The worship of power is an old religion.
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George Santayana
What a curious power words have.
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Tadeusz Borowski
More Quotes By Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore...