Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Power Quotes, Expression Quotes

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

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The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

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Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

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The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

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Excessive fear is always powerless.

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

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