Quotes About Power

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

Sweetie, she-warriors don"t scream. We wow our men with a look, tame them with a smile.

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?