Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

Topics: Power Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the...

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the...

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told...

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told...

And How and Where and Who.

And How and Where and Who.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For...

Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For...

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me...

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me...

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple...

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple...

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is...

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by...

It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by...

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.