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Quotes About Command

Power tires only those who do not have it.
~ Giulio Andreotti
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
~ Roland Barthes
The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
~ Isabel Paterson
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No one man should have all that power.
~ Kanye West
Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.
~ Dan Brown
We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.
~ Charlie Munger
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
~ Major Owens
Lists are a form of power.
~ A. S. Byatt
Law is but a heathen word for power.
~ Daniel Defoe
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
~ Ferdinand Foch
Nothing is more stylish than power.
~ Lois Wyse
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The spell of power never quite releases its hold.
~ Isaac Asimov
You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.
~ Erika Slezak
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]
~ Juvenal
Without any doubt, I am striving for power.
~ Alexei Navalny
Principles have a way of yielding to power.
~ Bette Lord
Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
~ Lois Wyse
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
~ Robert Greene
I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
~ Oliver Stone
Power is intoxicating.
~ Sho Baraka
Power is as power does.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.
~ John Ralston Saul