Quotes About Power

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.

Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.

the laws govern the poor, and the rich govern the law

Now, Sir, for my own part, as I naturally hate the face of a tyrant, the farther off he is removed from me, the better pleased am I. The generality of mankind also are of my way of thinking, and have unanimously created one king, whose election at once diminishes the number of tyrants, and puts tyranny at the greatest distance from the greatest number of people.

Thus the people, who could not bear the very name of king, readily submitted to a magistrate possessed of much greater power; so much do the names of things mislead us, and so little is any form of government irksome to the people, when it coincides with their prejudices.

Music is my higher power

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. … And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

The Nation observed, "If you steal $25, you're a thief. If you steal $250,000, you're an embezzler. If you steal $2,500,000, you're a financier.

Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses and there will never be another war on the face of the earth.

Such power, so much death in one place at one time. Never to be forgotten.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all

Beat a man with the strength of your argument, not with the strength of your arm.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.