John Stuart Mill on power

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

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