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Quotes About Power

Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.
~ Peter Buffett
Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction.
~ Peter Chernin
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
~ Philip Massinger
The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
~ Philip Massinger
The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.
~ Philippa Gregory
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!
~ Phyllis Bottome
Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.
~ Pierre Trudeau
The gods play games with men as balls.
~ Plautus
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
~ Plutarch
Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense
~ Ovid
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.
~ Raymond E. Feist
We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.
~ Raymond Khoury
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
~ Richard Hooker
O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.
~ Richard Llewellyn
His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.
~ Richelle Mead
No man may be completely invulnerable.
~ Rick Riordan
Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.
~ Rita Rudner
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.
~ Robert A. Burton
An armed man need not fight.
~ Robert A. Heinlein