A Quote by Charlotte Charke
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.
Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.
Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.
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