Eternal vigilance Quote by John Adams

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

— Gregory Maguire

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

— Erich Fromm

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

— George Sand

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

— Lincoln Steffens

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

— Lincoln Steffens

The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus…

— Samuel Johnson

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels…

— Alexander Lowen

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled…

— Leo Tolstoy

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

— Lyman Bryson

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

— Eckhart Tolle

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally…

— Samuel Adams