Maria Callas Quotes

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.

If we show ourselves as weak, we lose.... In the end, we want to lead the Muslim world. We can only do that with our heads held high.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan —to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

He who is strong, concedes.

Government is founded on property, property is founded on conquest, and conquest is founded on Power — and Power is founded on brain and brawn

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?