Power & Society Sayings

508 sayings found from 508 authors

Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

— John Locke 1689
Money & Business

The best is the enemy of the good.

— Voltaire 1764
War & Conflict

Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau Unknown
Money & Business

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

— Rene Descartes 1637
Power & Leadership

The truth is, all politicians have an interest in the perpetuity of the forms of government, and none in the perpetuity of their substance.

— David Hume 1748 (first published), 1777 (final edition)
Political

The development of the world is the development of the idea of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1837 (posthumous)
Justice & Rights

The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.

— Thomas Hobbes 1651
Power & Leadership

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

— John Stuart Mill 1859
Justice & Rights

The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.

— Benjamin Disraeli 1826
War & Conflict

The greater the emotion, the more strongly are we affected by it.

— Baruch Spinoza 1677
Power & Leadership

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

— Francis Bacon 1625
Justice & Rights

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

— Soren Kierkegaard 1849
Justice & Rights

Life in the NBA breaks down like this: 50% sex, 50% money.

— Dennis Rodman c. 1990s-2000s
Money & Business

Surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.

— Kim Jong-un 2017
Political

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is lent us in life: the higher the interest, the more we have to pay.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
Money & Business

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1972
Justice & Rights

The greatest scandal of the world is the one we are all guilty of: the fact that we are born.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1949
Justice & Rights

Where there is power, there is resistance.

— Michel Foucault 1976
Power & Leadership

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and terrorists, the more you control all the people.

— Noam Chomsky 1992
Justice & Rights

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

— Hannah Arendt 1951
Political
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