Quote by Blaise Pascal

The property of power is to protect.

The property of power is to protect.

Summary

This quote suggests that power has the inherent capability to provide security and safeguard individuals or groups. It implies that those in positions of power have the ability to shield and defend others from potential harm or threats. Whether referring to political or influential power, the quote emphasizes the responsibility to use that power to ensure the safety and well-being of those being protected. It underscores the notion that power should be wielded for the greater good and the protection of others, rather than being exploited for personal gain or dominance.

Topics

Power

By Blaise Pascal

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Although efficient markets people still go around saying the

Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a mountain of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea.

Truth People

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Sports

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time,

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Time

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

Persistence

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse l

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Henry David Thoreau

Food

If justice is removed... the great, the immense fabric of hu

If justice is removed... the great, the immense fabric of human society...must in a moment crumble into atoms.

Life Justice

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my ar

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Power

The important thing about being a leader is not being right

The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.

Terry Pratchett

Leadership Management

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only t

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

Time

IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out o

IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Edward Carpenter

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a rig

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautifu

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Nature