Power & Society Sayings

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, but in this world a spell of health is the best state.

I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint Domingue.

A good name is better than riches.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

For what can war, but acts of war still breed, Till injur'd truth from violence be freed?

The greatest wits, and the greatest fools, are equally innocent of the world.

I am a poor man, and I have always been poor.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Justice is nothing else than the charity of the wise.

The more I think of it, the more I feel that there is something wrong with the whole business of publishing. The publishers are the real thieves.

I have a terrible weakness for gambling.

I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

My brush is my sword, and my canvas is my battlefield.

I do not wish to be judged by what others have done, but by what I myself do.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

I like to spend money.

I am a very bad economist.