Quotes About Power

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.