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Power Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
- There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us…
- There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
- That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will…
- There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
- But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it…
- When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
- Power ought to serve as a check to power.
- The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it…
- Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master…
- There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
- The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
- Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
- Power should be a check on power.
- The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
- The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo