Power Quotes
Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.
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"We make the world; we are not mere passive spectators."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"True power lies in the ability to help others."Comte, Auguste
"The greatest power is the power of ideas."Comte, Auguste
"Power without responsibility breeds tyranny."Spencer, Herbert
"Power reveals character."Spencer, Herbert
"Ideas are forces that shape our world."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"Power is most stable when it rests on genuine understanding."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The highest human power is persuasion."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Power without wisdom is tyranny."Comte, Auguste
"Power is the ability to improve the lives of others."Comte, Auguste
"The action of thought is the beginning of all power."James, William
"Survival of the fittest applies to nations as much as to animals."Spencer, Herbert
"The degree of power is the degree of pleasure."Spencer, Herbert
"Where reason fails, appetite takes over."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Power without wisdom becomes tyranny."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The pen is mightier than the sword, but both are tools of power."Bentham, Jeremy
"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."Marx, Karl
"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production."Marx, Karl
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."Marx, Karl
"Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and it never will."Marx, Karl
"Power without enlightenment corrupts both ruler and ruled."Comte, Auguste
"Power justifies itself only through the welfare it produces for others."Comte, Auguste
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community is to prevent harm to others."Mill, John Stuart
"Power without wisdom is the greatest danger to human progress."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Power corrupts, but wisdom redeems and transforms."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"I am not a man, I am dynamite."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"No power on earth can compare with the power of an idea whose time has come."Bentham, Jeremy
"The love of power is more universal than the love of money."Bentham, Jeremy
"The pen is mightier than the sword because it shapes the very thoughts that guide the sword."Bentham, Jeremy