Quotes About Power

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

When did one man ever civilize a people?

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.