Quotes About Power

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

Here's a man who was twice elected to the most powerful position on Earth despite needing a TelePrompTer to correctly identify what year it was.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.