Power
“That which does not kill him makes him stronger.”
— Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
“The will to power is the primitive motive force out of which all other motives have been derived.”
— Nietzsche, The Will to Power
“Because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved.”
— Machiavelli, The Prince
“All warfare is based on deception.”
— Sun Tzu, Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War The Oldest Military Treatise in the World
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
— Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
— Machiavelli, The Prince
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
— Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party
“A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline.”
— Machiavelli, The Prince
“Men are so simple, and yield so much to the present necessities, that he who hath a mind to deceive, shall always find another that will be deceived.”
— Machiavelli, Machiavelli, Volume I
“Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.”
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price.”
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan