Quotes About Power

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.