Quotes about Power
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
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