top of page

"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Power quotes

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"One who rules is ruled."

"Naysayers are frightened of their own power."
Explore more quotes by William Godwin


"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."


"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."


"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."


"The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself."


"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."


"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."
bottom of page