Power Quotes

Give me the power to issue a nation’s money; then I do not care who makes the laws.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

I do not call majesty that pomp which surrounds kings or that exterior magnificence which dazzles the vulgar. That is but the reflection of majesty and not majesty itself. Majesty is the image of the grandeur of God in the prince.

For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America!

You might just as well read the Bible to a herd of buffaloes as to those fellows ... but they have a supreme respect for the logic ... embodied in Sharp's rifles .

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

One man with courage makes a majority.

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

The Mohammadan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

I am king. I am lord. I am praiseworthy. I am important. I am magnificent. I am foremost. I am a hero. I am a warrior. I am a lion, and I am virile.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

He who is strong, concedes.

He who has the greatest power put into his hands will only become the more impatient of any restraint in the use of it.

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

What millions died – that Caesar might be great!

We can destroy only as creators

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

Power without authority is tyranny.