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Power Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
- All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they…
- People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have…
- Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there…
- Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power…
- The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
- Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
- I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
- The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names.…
- I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing…
- All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
- Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and…
- The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends…
- The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of…
- You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
- I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
- Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can…
- People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and…
- Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity
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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