“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood”
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Tacitus
3 quotes“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
Isaac Asimov
3 quotes“Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Folly is a child of power.”
Christopher Marlowe
2 quotes“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1”
Frank Herbert
2 quotes“Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”
Hamilton
2 quotes“Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
Thomas Hobbes
2 quotes“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”
Alice Walker
2 quotes“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
Robert Heinlein
2 quotes“…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.”
John Adams
2 quotes“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”
Veronica Roth
2 quotes“Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”
Hitler
2 quotes“I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered...”