A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Am I God, to kill and to make alive?

Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!