Power Quotes

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't" "Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg." "This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us" "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground" "High office teaches decision-making, not substance." "Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will" "History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and powerful but how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless" "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom" "To rule is easy, to govern difficult" "If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world" "It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law" "A Lannister always pays his debts." "Power is not a means it is an end" "Covenants without the sword are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all"