Quotes about Power
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
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
— George Bernard Shaw
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
— George Bernard Shaw
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
— George Washington
Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.
— George Washington
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
— GK Chesterton