Top 100 King Power Quotes
#2. Have we unwittingly exaggerated the importance of individuals succeeding within pre-existing structures of power, and thereby undermined King's call for a "complete restructuring" of our society? Have
Michelle Alexander
#3. Every last person I've seen was the same way. Whether it was booze, women or even God. Family, the king, dreams, children, power ... They couldn't keep going unless they were drunk on something. They were all slaves to something.
Hajime Isayama
#4. One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.
Cardinal Richelieu
#5. Jesus and the Kingdom of God are distinct but inseparable. It is Jesus, the King of God's Kingdom, who defines the Kingdom and demonstrates its principles and its power.
Kirby Clements Senior
#6. No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television].
Fred W. Friendly
#8. If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.
David Jeremiah
#9. They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
Ray Bradbury
#10. To hold a human soul in the palm of your hand like a pebble. To feel somebody slip away, yet by your actions to bring her back! Not even a king had such power.
Noah Gordon
#11. And it is not in any of our interests to have the balance of power turned on its head like this. An overly mighty French king is no improvement over an overly mighty English one.
Sharon Kay Penman
#12. Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#13. An entire nation shook under the power of one man's [MLK's] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.
Wayne Cordeiro
#14. The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.
Chanakya
#15. The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#16. I don't get that, I mean, what's power? Let's say he suddenly becomes king of the world. What is he going to do with it that he can't do now? Is his food going to taste better? Is the weather going to be nicer? Will love feel better? I just don't understand that mentality.
Richard Paul Evans
#17. We would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.
Aristotle.
#18. Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
John Newton
#19. You must try to understand, my dearest one. It was not treason, was but a dream bred before its time, that the King should not be accountable only to God. No mortal man ought to be entrusted with power such as that, for any king's son may be born a fool.
Sharon Kay Penman
#20. Lord Rama renounced his kingdom and became the most powerful king in the land. Buddha renounced the world and the world fell at his feet. Cornelia, my innocent girl, please do not believe that renunciation is to forsake power. Rather, it's the very means to power!' Chandragupta
Ashwin Sanghi
#21. The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
Karen Maitland
#22. This morning President Obama met with Britain's Prince William in the Oval Office. It was a meeting between a symbolic ruler with no real power and the future king of England.
Conan O'Brien
#23. If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life.
John Sherman
#24. Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.
Lauren DeStefano
#25. He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.
Jayne Castel
#26. The pursuit of the crucified crown follows the performance of the crucified King such that both performances go against the power structures of the world that think victory and power come only through aggressive and violent means.
Matt Farlow
#27. The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
Gregory David Roberts
#28. I have my own. I don't believe in religion, just as you mentioned. I think it does more harm than good. Believers see it as the one truth, non believers see it as trash and king's use it for power. Not one of them is right.
Celia Mcmahon
#29. Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?
Pepin The Short
#30. Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.
Thomas Helwys
#31. No king or emperor in the world had the power to keep captive this nonentity,
Rabindranath Tagore
#32. The day after I became king, S'yan offered a single piece of wisdom. 'Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.' This was profound. For it meant that the majesty of kings lay in their mystique... not in their might.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#33. The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
Orhan Pamuk
#34. I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong man strongly and the weak man by caprice. They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it.
Samuel Smiles
#35. The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
Pierre Corneille
#36. Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled with her uncle, or with any of the men at court that could have been her allies. She did not care who hated her, as long as the king was at her beck and call. And she could ruin any man she chose. George
Philippa Gregory
#37. If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
David Mitchell
#39. A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
T.A. Barron
#40. The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
#41. The withdrawal of the king from the narrative exposes the king as an irrelevance. The one with all the power can do nothing to save. Because it is only my God who saves.
Walter Brueggemann
#42. They joined hands.
So the world ended.
And the next one began.
Sarah J. Maas
#43. O Sam! cried Frodo. 'What have I said? What have I done? Forgive me! After all you have done. It is the horrible power of the Ring. I wish it had never, never, been found. But don't mind me, Sam. I must carry the burden to the end. It can't be altered. You can't come between me and this doom.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#44. I should feel energized and powerful, invulnerable and potent, but all I feel is lost.
Kelly Thompson
#45. For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.
Kool Moe Dee
#46. You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.
Chuck Palahniuk
#47. There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter.
Billy Sunday
#48. The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.
John Adams
#49. Letting go seems like the most powerful thing I could do.
And so I do.
I just let it all go.
And it feels glorious.
Kelly Thompson
#51. The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.
Ken Follett
#52. The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George ... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.
Ron Paul
#53. A team on my own, deliver like a power play/ Call the king of rap, you can't take the crown away/
Gio Willimas
#54. Power always becomes consolidated back into the hands of very few people ... whether they be an economic aristocracy, a royalty, a monarchy which is the most concentrated form of oligarchy where it depends on one King who is ordained supposedly by God to rule.
Immortal Technique
#55. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.
Robert Greene
#56. When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
Michael Eric Dyson
#57. There are times when a nation desires a king or a dictator; times of confusion and uncertainty when they go down on their knees to one man and beg him to accept absolute power over them.
Peter Green
#58. Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
Maria Cantwell
#59. No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
Geraldine Brooks
#60. She still talks of fairness. What does fairness have to do with any of this? The people curse my name and pay for you, but you're the one who is ready to abandon them. I'm the one who will give them power over their enemies. I'm the one who will free them from the tyranny of the king.
Leigh Bardugo
#61. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!
Jim Henson
#62. Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
Mabel Hale
#63. I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments.
Charles Dance
#64. I forgot, being too interested myself, that he's a king, and does not see things rationally, but as a king. All I've told him means to him simply that his power is threatened, his kingdom is a dust mote in space, his kingship is a joke to men who rule a hundred worlds.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#65. Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity - even if it had killed the cat - is king.
Kim Harrison
#66. His power sings to your blood. I witnessed your reaction to him just now. He'll be a king in a few years ... And you'll be his queen.
Kenya Wright
#67. ( ... ) I, for one, prize less
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom's school.
Sophocles
#68. A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
William Hazlitt
#70. Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
Jack London
#71. Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
Louis L'Amour
#72. This tune goes manly.
Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;
Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth
Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.
The night is long that never finds the day.
They exit.
William Shakespeare
#73. It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.
John Milton
#74. T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
Adam Nicolson
#75. Pain is the biggest power of love. That's what Wireman says.
Stephen King
#76. We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their responsibility and turn the people's demands for democracy and good governance into reality.
Joseph Adam Ereli
#77. And do you not think less of me for making my fortune in
such a way?" After all, her own sister did.
He gave her an odd look. "There is no shame in being the
mistress of a king. It's a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.
Jenna Maclaine
#78. You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!
Ken Follett
#79. That's for you to decide, Yor Majesty. You have the third greatest power in the land - God, the king, then you. And God rarely bothers.
Laura L. Sullivan
#80. There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.
Pete Seeger
#81. A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille
#82. Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
Jim Wallis
#83. They were full of light, of fire and starlight and sunshine. They over-flowed with it as they snapped the final tether on the king's power and cleaved his darkness away, burning it up until it was nothing.
Sarah J. Maas
#84. The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.
Mason Cooley
#85. What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.
James Buchan
#87. If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
Orson Pratt
#88. A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.
Aria Cunningham
#89. Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#90. It's your choice now," he whispered in my ear, making the hairs at the back of my neck stand on end. "I will bed you. That is not the choice, but whether or not you wish to experience my touch or to be oblivious. It's in my power to grant you either.
Cristina Rayne
#91. Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.
Israelmore Ayivor
#92. I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.
Frederick Lenz
#93. All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.
Chuck Palahniuk
#94. HOW CAME THE KING BY A POWER WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST, AND ALWAYS OBLIGED TO CHECK? Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, WHICH NEEDS CHECKING, be from God; yet the provision, which the constitution makes, supposes such a power to exist.
Thomas Paine
#95. His eyes widen in terror and shock. "You promissssed," he gasps, "I am king here." "I lied." And then I push my power out hard,
Rachel A. Marks
#96. One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said people didn't have kings any more. He said he meant the centre of power, but today it wouldn't be a single person, it would be the technological connections.
Margaret Atwood
#97. The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.
Charlie Pierce
#98. The look of a king is itself a deed.
Jean Paul
#99. Psalm 91
My Refuge and My Fortress
91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
LaNina King
#100. Ever since I drank your blood, my head has been crazy ... I won't lie. The connection gives me a lot of power over you. I could read your thoughts and speak to you wherever I am, even several miles away.
Kenya Wright
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