676 quotes found
“What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to...”
“Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.”
“Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.”
“Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.”
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.”
“He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.”
“Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.”
“His countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow.”
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely where does that leave God?”
“The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
“Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.”
“Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.”
“Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
“Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.”
