Quotes About Power

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

When strength and justice are true yoke-fellows, where can be found a mightier pair than they?

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of Heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

In a change of government, the poor change nothing but the name of their master.

Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

The great do not always prevail.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Might makes right.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

A word uttered cannot be taken back

A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not