Quotes About Power

Four inch nails is more like it!

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.