Quotes About Power

Political liberty, the tranquility of a nation, nay, knowledge itself, are gifts on which destiny has laid a tax of blood!

When religion and royalty are destroyed the people will attack the nobles; after the nobles, the rich.

Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age, at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.

Power is action, and the elective principle is discussion.There is no policy, no statesmanship possible where discussion is permanent.

A husband who submits to his wifes yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A womans influence ought to be entirely concealed.

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.

Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.

Women always persuade men they have made into sheep that they are lions with a will of iron.

Misfortune is a kind of talisman whose virtue consists in its power to confirm our original nature; in some men it increases their distrust and malignancy, just as it improves the goodness of those who have a kind heart.

Femeile al caror suflet si ale caror intentii sunt pure, se folosesc de virtuti pentru a-i domina pe barbatii pe care-i iubesc; dar femeile care nu le vor binele ii guverneaza servindu-se de cusururile lor.

Christianity and monarchy are twin principles.

unrecognized power is apt to avenge itself for lowly station by viewing the world from a lofty standpoint.

Le char de la civilisation, semblable à celui de l'idole de Jaggernaut, à peine retardé par un cœur moins facile à broyer que les autres et qui enraye sa roue, l'a brisé bientôt et continue sa marche glorieuse.

Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.