Quotes About Power

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.