Albert Einstein Quotes

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

All governments, without exception, are stable only insofar as they can effectively reward and punish.

Pity the powerful who are tested by history and fail.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside the lion.

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

To rule is an art, not a science.

Men are never very wise in the exercise of a new power.

The possession of knowledge has always been dangerous.

Force without wisdom fall of its own weight.

A ruler must learn to be other than good.

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 is the multitude which possess force, and wisdom must yield to that.

We cannot always do what is absolutely best. Those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice

The position of what is generally called great people has of late become extremely difficult. They are more attacked and calumniated, and judged with less indulgence than private individuals. What they have lost in this way, they have not by any means regained in any other. Ever since the revolution of 1790 they are much less secure than they used to be, and the transition from sovereign power to absolute want has been as frequent as sudden.

Women ruled all; and ministers of state Were at the doors of women forced to wait,-- Women, who we oft as sovereigns graced the land, But never governed well at second-hand.

Those of us with power must learn to listen more and talk less; those without power must learn to talk more an listen less.

Russian elites believe that he [President Vladimir Putin] serves the same function as the Czars of old, keeping diverse political clans and their leaders (the boyars) in balance, preventing the civil war or chaos that a country of Russia’s vast size and relative emptiness would face if it were left open to competition by those who retain loyal militias.

A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.