Quotes about Power
When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
— Cormac McCarthy
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
— Euripides
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
— Francois Rabelais
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
— George Eliot
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
— George W. Bush
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
— GK Chesterton
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
— Madeleine Albright
Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.
— Mahatma Gandhi