Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Power

7 quotes

  1. He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

  2. France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

  3. To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

  4. A whiff of grapeshot.

  5. Fire is the best of servents; but what a master!

  6. Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

  7. Captains of Industry.

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