Quotes About Power

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.