Power & Society Sayings

508 sayings found from 508 authors

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1963
Justice & Rights

I am a queen, and I will have my way.

— Cleopatra c. 50-30 BCE
Power & Leadership

The Queen is a woman, not a machine.

— Queen Victoria c. 1870s
Power & Leadership

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

— Elizabeth I Uncertain
Power & Leadership

I came to Russia a poor princess, but I will make her rich.

— Catherine the Great Uncertain
Money & Business

Something can be about me…and it can still be none of my business.

— Taylor Swift 2025 (approximate, podcast release)
Money & Business

Let us educate our children to be wise and strong, for in them lies the future of our empire.

— Charlemagne c. 790
Power & Leadership

I have seen the cross in the sky, and in it I have conquered.

— Constantine the Great 312
War & Conflict

I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician.

— Margaret Thatcher 1987
Political

I've often wondered how we'd stand up to an alien invasion. And then I've thought that if there was an alien threat, that would unite us all.

— Ronald Reagan 1987
War & Conflict

I'm not a natural politician.

— John F. Kennedy 1960
Political

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

— Richard Nixon 1977
Political

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

— Igor Stravinsky unknown
Power & Leadership

When I am in the White House, I am the President; when I am in the country, I am a farmer.

— Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
Political

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

— Woodrow Wilson 1917
Political

I don't give a damn about the Republicans or the Democrats. I'm interested in the United States of America.

— Harry Truman 1940s-1950s
Political

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

— Dwight Eisenhower 1945
War & Conflict

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

— Charles de Gaulle Unknown
Political

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

— Benito Mussolini 1926
Justice & Rights

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

— Edvard Munch Early 20th Century
Money & Business
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