Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Power
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on...
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Men still have to be governed by deception.