Novalis Quotes

You've got your maximum amount of power in your honeymoon period. The decisions may be wrong, history may prove them wrong, but at least you do it.

It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

Eat when it's time to eat. And move along when it's time to move along.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

The time for change is now.

What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Action is the 'bridge' between the inner world and the outer world.

There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.