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Political literature6 quotes
Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651It will not be denied, that power is of an encroaching nature, and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it. — James Madison · 1788Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. — Oscar Wilde · 1891To have power means not to have to give in, and to force the environment or the other person to do so. Power in this narrow sense is the priority of output over intake, the ability to talk instead of listen. In a sense, it is the ability to afford not to learn. — Karl Deutsch · 1966Whoever is responsible for another's becoming powerful ruins himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1513Political speech5 quotes
Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." — Mao Zedong · 1938No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. — Abraham Lincoln · 1854The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. — Edmund Burke · 1771Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, Earl of Chatham · 1770The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. — Henry Clay · 1834Philosophical literature4 quotes
Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Whoever is responsible for another's becoming powerful ruins himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1513Drama2 quotes
Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow. — Lord Varys · 2012Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. — Oskar Schindler · 1993Autobiography and memoir1 quote
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. — Henry Adams · 1907Drama (TV)1 quote
Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow. — Lord Varys · 2012Drama (film)1 quote
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. — Oskar Schindler · 1993Fantasy1 quote
Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow. — Lord Varys · 2012Fantasy (TV)1 quote
Power resides where men believe it resides. It’s a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow. — Lord Varys · 2012Historical drama1 quote
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. — Oskar Schindler · 1993Historical drama (film)1 quote
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. — Oskar Schindler · 1993Historical literature1 quote
The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing. — Herodotus · 430 BCPsychological literature1 quote
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — Carl Jung · 1912Religious literature1 quote
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? — Jesus · 60Western1 quote
You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend—those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. — Blondie · 1966Western (film)1 quote
You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend—those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. — Blondie · 1966