Quotes About Power

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

The king is the man who can.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.