To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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