Quotes About Power

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.

Donald Trump, yes, he's somebody's little boy. But he is his ideas because his ideas are what's going to affect us. As a man, he can do very little. But his ideas could kill us all.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.