Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1021-1040] of 1246 Power quotesPower QuotesPower Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes No, there is a limit to the tyrant's power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals With fearless heart to Heaven, And thence brings down his everlasting rights, Which there abide, inalienably his, And indestructible as stars themselves. The primal state of nature reappears, Wherein man confronts his fellow man; And if all other means shall fail his need, One last resort remains—his own good sword. The dearest of our goods we may defend From violence. We stand before our country, We stand before our wives, before our children!~ Friedrich Schiller I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.~ Albert Schweitzer CRIMINAL: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.~ Howard Scott The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.~ Roger Scruton Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca 'Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Our minds must have relaxation: rested, they will rise up better and keener. Just as we must not force fertile fields (for uninterrupted production will quickly exhaust them), so continual labor will break the power of our minds. They will recover their strength, however, after they have had a little freedom and relaxation.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.~ Horatio Seymour Republics are formed only after revolution. The change to the empire is slow and gradual. One of the saddest lessons of history is that whenever these schools of politics have met in the republics of old, the imperial school, with its dazzling influence of wealth and power, has always won.~ John F. Shafroth The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.~ William Shakespeare Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.~ William Shakespeare Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.~ George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.~ George Bernard Shaw One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.~ George Bernard Shaw Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.~ George Bernard Shaw If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?~ Harry Shearer If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.~ Roger Sherman Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print