Quotes About Power

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

Men make history, not the other way around.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.

We are all the President's men.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.