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"Power ought to serve as a check to power."

Charles de Secondat on Power

More quotes about Power

  • "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

    Abraham Lincoln on Power

  • "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

    Margaret Thatcher on Power

  • "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

    Bruce Lee on Power

  • "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

  • "Character is power."

    Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Charles de Secondat

  • "Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."

  • "As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."

  • "But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."

  • "There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."

  • "Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."

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