Neither power nor wealth is the road to contentment, except for psychopaths.
Neither power nor wealth is the road to contentment, except for psychopaths.
“Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” James Madison
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” George Orwell
“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” C. G. Jung
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” Eckhart Tolle
“The past has no power over the present moment.” Eckhart Tolle
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