We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires
Alfred de VignyTags: power mankind hypocrisy absolutes
Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by setting up the executioner at his right hand like a guardian angel
Alfred de VignyOne is always a good master when one isn’t the master
Alfred de VignyTags: power
I’m not attached to anything.
I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.
I think that I will die with the boots on.
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
Gregory CorsoTags: power waiting slackers standing slacker slacking
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary WollstonecraftTags: empowerment equality gender power women freedom independence dignity women-s-rights
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)
Tags: liberty love power others ourselves
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil GaimanTags: power protest truth-telling
Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.
John ChristopherTags: power
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: power god death dreams torture rest
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