Barbara Tuchman Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Strong, Power, Thinking

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.131, Crux Publishing Ltd

• If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Weakness, Compromise

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945”, p.551, Random House

• Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Mean, Power, Secret

• Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Men, Folly

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.382, Random House

• The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Action, Appetite

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution”, p.65, Random House

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