Ludwig von Mises on power

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect — better because they alone give promise of final success.

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