Power & Society Sayings

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

I am not afraid that they will find bad governments, but that they will find governments that are not interested in the well-being of the people.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The future of man is not in the stars but in the control of his own behavior.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The metropolis, which is the seat of the money economy, is the place of this highest development of individuality.

A crime is a crime because it is punished; it is not punished because it is a crime.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

The greatest punishment for a man is to know that he has done wrong, but to be unable to atone for it.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.

I have been in many battles and I have been victorious in all of them. But now I am weary and I want to rest.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline to the religion of solitude.