Top 27 Seizing Power Quotes
#1. Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted.
George Orwell
#2. Parisians had no doubt that, should the Huguenots succeed in seizing power in France, as it was obvious they were trying to do, the Catholic population would be either forced to convert or suffer annihilation. But
Nancy Goldstone
#3. It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin
every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands ...
Charlton Heston
#4. Next Wednesday is part of our routine, another chance to spend lunch hour doing it somewhere else in Kim's immaculate house. Maybe on the white leather couch next time, the one she loves too much to even let me sit on.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
#5. Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us.
If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.
Dean Koontz
#7. After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat the experience.
James C. Scott
#8. As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.
Maxwell Maltz
#9. The problem with you khakis is that you have started believing your own nonsense.
Mohammed Hanif
#10. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it,
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#11. Because I have a feeling most people who ahve met you get the urge to kill you at one point or another
Jus Accardo
#12. The problem I have telling my secret', said Eldric, 'is that it's a secret.
Franny Billingsley
#13. Is the result of cooperation the seizing of power? Not so: cooperation mysteriously creates more power than there was before, so that the more we work together the more power we discover is available to us.
Andy Crouch
#14. Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
John Galt
#15. Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
Amanda Palmer
#16. The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.
Elvis Presley
#18. Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
Pablo Picasso
#19. In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.
Alessia Cara
#20. The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.
Lesslie Newbigin
#21. Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both - and we can if we try - we have failed.
Russ Feingold
#22. anarchism is to Marxism-Leninism what Anabaptism was to the magisterial Reformation: a revolutionary movement predicated upon negating, rather than seizing control of, state power.
Mark Van Steenwyk
#23. Smartass Disciple: Master, do you really believe in the second chance?
Master of Stupidity: That supports the basis of lost-then-found concept.
Toba Beta
#24. A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.
Daniel Amen
#25. Living was easy - all you had to do was let go. And have a little money. Let the other men fight the wars, let the other men go to jail.
Charles Bukowski
#26. More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.
Nancy Birdsall
#27. We can call this power intuition, but intuition is nothing more than a sudden and immediate seizing of what is real, without the need for words or formulas.
Anonymous
