Extremes Quote by Rufus Choate Download Open image “Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.” — Rufus Choate ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extremes Liable Power Reactions
All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Dalam berargumentasi jangan mengeluarkan ejekan mau pun sindiran tajam.” — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
