Quotes about Power
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
— George Bernard Shaw
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
— Pope John Paul II
God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength
— Charles Spurgeon
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
— James G. Frazer
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men
— Abraham Lincoln
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
— Albert Schweitzer
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
— Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
— Ayn Rand
With words we govern men.
— Benjamin Disraeli
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
— CS Lewis
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
— Ezra Taft Benson