Alexander Hamilton on power

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2

• Happiness

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2

• Morality

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97

• Love