Quotes about Power
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
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