Mark Twain Quotes

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the company of kings.

You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness.

When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit.

Who asks a king for a penny?

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Appearance is a type of power.

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Rank is a great beautifier.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.