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Quotes About Power

Man is man, and master of his fate.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man's word is God in man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
~ Algernon Sidney
Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.
~ Alice Sebold
His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.
~ Alison Goodman
When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.
~ Alison Pill
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.
~ Andrew Davidson
So much one man can do that does both act and know.
~ Andrew Marvell
I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
~ Anita Loos
It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief
~ Anthony Horowitz
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
~ Anthony Trollope
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
~ Anthony Trollope
Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.
~ Ariel Winter
The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.
~ Arya
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
~ Austin O'Malley
[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
~ Ava DuVernay