Quotes about Power
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
— Francis de Sales
A government is the most dangerous threat to man
— Ayn Rand
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.
— Richard Wurmbrand
It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.
— Gordon Hinckley
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
— Cicero
A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.
— Charles Spurgeon
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
— Frederick Douglass
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— St. Augustine
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
— John Adams
A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.
— John Owen
Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.
— Donald Trump