William Hazlitt Power Quotations

He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.

The power rests with the multitude, but let them beware how the exercise of it turns against their own rights! It is not the idol but the worshippers that are to be dreaded, and who, by degrading one of their fellows, render themselves liable to be branded with the same indignities.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination

The ballot is only useful as a screen from arbitrary power.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.