Quotes About Power

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Testosterone is a great equalizer, it turns all men into morons.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.