Quotes About Power

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.

Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle." "Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly. Ian grinned. "Exactly.

Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.

Man or woman in the White House. How about that?

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.