Pericles on power

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

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