Men Quote by Lyman Bryson

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise.…

— Gore Vidal

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is…

— Bertrand Russell

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

— Alan Paton

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

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

— Thomas Hobbes

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

— Erich Fromm

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Lincoln Steffens

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

— George R. R. Martin

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as…

— Anonymous

No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of…

— C. Wright Mills