The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power in number in pride in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows must renounce intellectual pride the omnipotence of clear thinking belief in the absolute power of logic.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality in the strict sense setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Moreover behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.