Quotes About Power

So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any power over me and henceforward I can laugh at them. It

the Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects.

the despot assures his subjects civil tranquillity.

Résumons en quatre mots le pacte social des deux états. Vous avez besoin de moi, car je suis riche et vous êtes pauvre ; faisons donc un accord entre nous : je permettrai que vous ayez l'honneur de me servir, à condition que vous me donnerez le peu qui vous reste pour la peine que je prendrai de vous commander.

It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.

Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are called weakness or power, wealth or poverty, human establishments appear at first glance to be based on piles of shifting sand.

We should not, with Warburton, conclude from this that politics and religion have among us a common object, but that, in the first periods of nations, the one is used as an instrument for the other.

La force a fait les premiers esclaves, leur lâcheté les a perpétués.

Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maître, s'il ne transforme sa force en droit et l'obéissance en devoir.

Les peuples une fois accoutumés à des maîtres ne sont plus en état de s'en passer. S'ils tentent de secouer le joug, ils s'éloignent d'autant plus de la liberté, que, prenant pour elle une licence effrénée qui lui est opposée, leurs révolutions les livrent presque toujours à des séducteurs qui ne font qu'aggraver leurs chaînes.

Plus le corps est faible, plus il commande ; plus il est fort, plus il obéit.

When a man is set in authority over others, everything conspires to rob him of his sense of justice and reason.

Grocio niega que todo poder humano se haya establecido en favor de los gobernados, y pone por ejemplo la esclavitud. La manera de discurrir, que más constantemente usa, consiste en establecer el derecho por el hecho.(1) Bien podría emplearse un método más consecuente, pero no se hallaría uno que fuese más favorable a los tiranos.

Terimi tam anlam? ile ele al?rsak, hakiki demokrasi hiç bir zaman mevcut olmad??? gibi bundan sonra da olmayacakt?r. Çok say?dakilerin az say?dakileri idaresi tabii nizama ayk?r?d?r.

Sparta ve Roma yok olduktan sonra, hangi devlet sonsuzcas?na sürüp gitmeyi umabilir? Sürekli bir yönetim biçimi kurmak istiyorsaki onu sonsuz yapmay? düÅŸünmeyelim.

This is how in every condition the guilty strong person saves himself at the expense of the innocent weak one...

Force is a physical power; I do not see how its effects could produce morality. To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will; it is at best an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a moral duty?

Objektif bak?mdan, ezilenlerin teselli olarak bir Tanr?'ya inanmalar?, halk y???nlar?n? mücadeleden uzaklaÅŸt?rmaktan baÅŸka bir sonuç vermez.

I may be asked whether I am a prince or a legislator that I should be writing about politics. I answer no: and indeed that is my reason for doing so. If I were a prince or a legislator I should not waste my time saying what ought to be done; I should do it or keep silent.

Todo hombre nacido en la esclavitud, nace para la esclavitud; nada

Todo hombre nacido en la esclavitud, nace para la esclavitud; nada más cierto.

El mismo que se considera señor de los demás no por esto deja de ser menos esclavo que los demás.

la fréquence des supplices est toujours un signe de faiblesse ou de paresse dans le gouvernement. Il n'y a point de méchant qu'on ne pût rendre bon à quelque chose.

Toda la diferencia consiste en que, en una familia, el amor paternal recompensa al padre de los cuidados que prodiga a sus hijos, en tanto que en el Estado el placer de mandar suple el amor que el jefe no siente por sus gobernados.