Beware Quote by W.K. Marriott

“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

“He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

— Edmund Burke

“And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power…

— Michel Foucault

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

— George Davis Herron

The real powerful person never rule on others, he is powerful enough to overrule himself.

— Senoraroy

“He who is given power will inevitably become an oppressor and exploiter of society.”

— Mikhail Bakunin

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political…

— James F. Cooper

“Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another’s greatness is himself undone,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power…

— Theodore Bikel