Devices Quote by Quintus Curtius Rufus

Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Direct threats require decisive action.

— Dick Cheney

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has…

— Martin Heidegger

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

— Dennis Kucinich

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

— Claudius Claudianus

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total…

— Paulo Freire

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

— Frank Herbert

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

— Edmund Burke

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

— James Madison

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

— John Adams

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted…

— Suzanne La Follette

Power people are generally threatened by authority people...

— James Hunter