Action Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

— Confucius

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

— Albert Camus

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness…

— Robert Musil

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who…

— Friedrich Ratzel

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by…

— Mark Twain

A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it…

— Vivian Gornick

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the…

— Marcus Aurelius

To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent…

— Charles William Eliot

“From this one can derive a general rule which rarely, if ever, fails: that anyone who is the cause of another becoming powerful comes…

— Niccolò Machiavelli