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Quotes About Power

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
~ Madame de Stael
The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What is impossible with man is child's play with God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
~ Malachy McCourt
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
~ Malcolm X
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
~ Malcolm X
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
~ Malcolm X
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.
~ Malcolm X
The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.
~ Malcolm X
America is a white man's country.
~ Malcolm X
It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.
~ Malcolm X
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.
~ Marian Keyes
I want to dominate the man's world.
~ Marina Abramovic
Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.
~ Marisha Pessl
I'd rather meet Spider-man than some creator that would put me in real awe!
~ Marko Djurdjevic
You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.
~ Markus Zusak
Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
~ Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley