Power Quotes
Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.
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"Man can will what is possible; that which is impossible no one can will."Friedrich Schiller
"Great minds are always feared by lesser minds."Friedrich Schiller
"The power to change lies within each individual heart."Friedrich Schiller
"Power without principle is tyranny."Christian Wolff
"The measure of power is not in force, but in influence."Christian Wolff
"There is no greater delight than to be the architect of one's own destiny."Johann Goethe
"We know only two kinds of forces: the power of love and the force of fear."Johann Goethe
"The power of ideas exceeds the power of force."Moses Mendelssohn
"Power is meaningless without compassion."Moses Mendelssohn
"Power wielded without wisdom inevitably leads to the oppression of the vulnerable."Catharine Macaulay
"Power without wisdom becomes tyranny."Moses Mendelssohn
"The human will bends itself to the powers that be."Friedrich Schiller
"A prince who governs by law is more powerful than one who rules by force alone."Jean Bodin
"The accumulation of power without wisdom leads inevitably to the corruption of the soul."Jean Bodin
"The pursuit of absolute power is the pursuit of absolute corruption and absolute misery."Jean Bodin
"Those who seek power for its own sake are unfit to hold it, for they lack the wisdom to use it well."Jean Bodin
"Those who monopolize knowledge and truth create the conditions for their own eventual overthrow."Jean Bodin
"Power without wisdom inevitably leads to the destruction of power itself."Christian Wolff
"Power that understands its own limits exercises true dominion."Christian Wolff
"The corruption of power is not inevitable; it is the consequence of insufficient virtue in those who hold it."Catharine Macaulay
"Power without conscience is the greatest danger to humanity."Moses Mendelssohn
"The world bows to those who understand its laws."Joseph-Louis Lagrange
"Power is not given, it is earned."Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
"The power of thought is the greatest power of all."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Power without wisdom is tyranny."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Power corrupts when separated from morality."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"The cause of all man's calamity is his ignorance of his own power."Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
"Our greatest weapon is not the sword but the word."Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
"A king who rules by fear alone shall die by the same fear he has sown."Jean Bodin
"Ambition without restraint is the seed of destruction planted in one's own breast."Jean Bodin