Men Quote by Eric Sevareid Download Open image “Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.” — Eric Sevareid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Order Power Want
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please. — Lois Gould Copy Share Image
“Good men want only the power to make things right. Great men seek to make things right and gather the power to do so.… — Kel Kade Copy Share Image
Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination. — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way. — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle:… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.' — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image