Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Source: Ethics, part 4, appendix (1677)
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141 quotes about power.
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
The use of force alone is but temporary.
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute.
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
It has acted in direct opposition to its proper end; it has destroyed its own object.
The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force - which attract its motive power.
The efficient parts only employ that power.
The efficient secret of the English constitution is the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers.
The Cabinet is an absolutely secret committee, which can dissolve the assembly which appointed it.
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind.
There can be no possible question that it is to the interest of the city that both the Spartans and these Thebans should be weak.
We must, therefore, take care not to allow the Spartans to attain a formidable degree of strength.