Quotes about Power
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
— Euripides
Man is man, and master of his fate.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man's word is God in man.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
— Ava DuVernay
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
— Ben Stein
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
— CS Lewis
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
— CS Lewis
Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.
— Charles Spurgeon
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
— Cormac McCarthy