Power Quotes

"Germany will be either a world power or it will not be at all."

"Men are made to be conquered and ruled."

"The German people respect strength above all other qualities."

"I have always believed in fate, but only when I make it myself."

"The greatest luxury is the ability to choose one's own advisors."

"The world respects only those who can enforce their will."

"Authority without respect is merely tyranny."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men."

"Energy is a new field of being in which all phenomena grow and wax, develop and flourish and decay and diminish."

"The world belongs to the strong and the weak must serve or perish."

"The measure of power is not in what is destroyed, but what is built."

"The pen is mightier than the sword, for it can inspire revolutions in the human heart."

"Power is temporary, but principles are eternal."

"Strength comes not from power, but from principle."

"Power without principle is tyranny."

"I have discovered that mercy is not weakness, but the highest form of power."

"The pursuit of absolute power leads only to absolute isolation."

"The cost of maintaining power is eternal vigilance and sacrifice."

"The man who fears nothing is more powerful than the man with an army."

"We are the masters of our own fate."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Power corrupts, but responsibility elevates."

"A woman's power lies not in her position, but in her resolve."

"Clemency is the prerogative of kings."

"Power without mercy is tyranny."

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it."

"I came not to ravish but to conquer and to rule."

"Great powers do not wage war for the sake of justice; they wage it for the sake of power."

"The great questions of the day will be decided, not by means of speeches and majority decisions, but by blood and iron."

"Iron does not hear complaints; it only respects strength."