Power & Society Sayings

The rich are not just people who have money; they are people who have options.

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

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

To-day is a king in disguise, and we are his courtiers. To-morrow is a queen, and we are her slaves.

The Way is made by walking.

The root of the empire is in the state; the root of the state is in the family; the root of the family is in the person of its head.

If the qi is not strong, the body cannot be healthy. If the mind is not steadfast, wisdom cannot be complete.

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.

I would rather have the Muslims blame me for fighting than have them blame me for abandoning jihad.

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

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

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

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.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.