George Eliot Quotes About Power

• The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

  George Eliot

  Teacher, Responsibility, Power

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.502, 谷月社

• Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

  George Eliot

  Life, Exercise, Animal

• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

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