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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
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell1903–1950Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: “The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.” In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 31
- History
Power is founded upon opinion.
Napoleon1769–1821Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 248
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
Napoleon1769–1821Memoirs of Napoleon (1829-1831)
- Leadership
I repeat that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Vivian Grey (1826), Book VI, Chapter 7
- Responsibility
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 5, originally published in Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
- Guns
- Politics
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Le Fil de l’épée (1932)
- Talking
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908)
- War & Peace
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused — preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bushborn 1946A Distinctly American Internationalism (November 1999)
- America
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
George W. Bushborn 1946George W. Bush’s First Inaugural Address (2001)
- America
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
Tacitus55–120Annals (117), Book IV, 35.
The gods are on the side of the stronger.
Tacitus55–120Histories (100-110), Book IV, 17
- War & Peace