“The world is governed by opinion”
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“The world is governed by opinion”
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life”
“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could”
“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion”
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority”
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner”
“Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men”
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised”
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life”
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously”
“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal”
“It is much safer to obey, than to govern”
“Men still have to be governed by deception”
“Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.”
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish”
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family”