Quotes About Power

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Free men are the strongest men.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

The laws of men are not infallible.

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.