Quotes About Power

The 'C' students run the world.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

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You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S. Truman

The President may have a great many powers given to him by the Constitution and may have certain powers under certain laws which are given to him by the Congress of the United States; but the principal power that the President had is to bring people in and try to persuade them to do what they ought to do without persuasion.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.

Poor men have more to fear when the laws go down than the rich, for they are less able to protect themselves without law. You had all better shiver when you see a policeman rioting rather than putting down a riot, for he may well come after you next, or stand aside when someone else does.

Assassins murdered freedom merely by existing.

You count snouts," Straha said. "Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Some things unfortunately yielded to no man's orders. Maybe that was why foolish people imagined gods into being: to have someone whose orders were sure to be obeyed.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.

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"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

"Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect