6 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Power

Samuel Johnson quotes on power

17. How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

56. No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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82. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.

113. A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

131. So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

162. A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.