Burden Quote by Brandon Sanderson

“Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. ”

— Michael Foot

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

— Michael Foot

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

— Lincoln Steffens

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

— Lincoln Steffens

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

— Edmund Burke

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead…

— Hermann Bahr

“But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough. No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to…

— Aeschylus

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

— George R. R. Martin

Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word…

— Anonymous

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Power is the manifestation of the use men make of it.”

— Stephen Brust

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power

— John Adams