9 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Power

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on power

37. A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

38. Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

46. With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

47. 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...

54. We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

84. With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

88. The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

115. 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.

134. Men still have to be governed by deception.