Quotes About Power

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.