Balance Of Power Quotes

I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.

~ Amanda Bouchet

The universe is all about balance. The forces of light and darkness are meant to keep a check on one another. If one becomes too powerful and starts overrunning the other, that balance will be upset. For the tyranny of virtue is as unbearable as the stranglehold of vice.

~ Shatrujeet Nath

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.

~ Christian D. Larson

It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government as the balancing mechanism that prevented those factions and furies from spending out of control.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.

~ Victoria Aveyard