“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
— Thucydides Primary source“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”
— Ayn Rand Disputed“There is no knowledge that is not power”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Power is the goal of all ambition.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“And we in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the premeditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.”
— Jack London Primary source“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”
— Jack London Primary sourceNature Strength War President Wealth