A Quote by John Adams

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

John Adams

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John Adams
American - President
October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

John Adams

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Jean Vanier

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Robert Caro

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

John Lewis Gaddis

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Robert Caro

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

Noam Chomsky

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Noah Webster

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Saul Alinsky

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

Tamora Pierce

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

Baruch Spinoza

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who knows his soul knows this truth: " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature. I am the stars, I am the waves, I am the Life of all, I am the laughter within all hearts, I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul. I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. "

Paramahansa Yogananda

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Niccolo Machiavelli

To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.

John C. Calhoun

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

Kate Morton

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

Nikolai Berdyaev

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