Absolute power Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte Download Open image “Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.” — Napoleon Bonaparte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolute power Absolutes Anarchy Power Stepping stone Stepping stones Stones
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Anarchy is any form of freedom that is outside the law. In your case, you should rather understand universal law and abide by it.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“As Israel made the wants of his national existence the law of the world, as under the dominance of these wants he deified even… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Sometimes we like to think if we had power, that we would be different, and we would be omnipotent, but the truth is absolute… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
“With absolute power, corruption and evil seep in humanity, and that evil continues to flourish as the good of humankind lies idle in darkness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
