Quotes About Power

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.