Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Powerful, Passion, Law

• There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Compassion, Animal, Power

• Power ought to serve as a check to power.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Power, Checks, Ought

• The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Power, Use, Administration

• Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Power, Men, Abuse

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