Tacitus Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

  Tacitus

  Passion, Heart, Lust

• The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Freedom, War

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Anger, Politics

  "Agricola". Book by Tacitus. Chapter 42. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

• Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

  Tacitus

  Political, Audacity, Politics

• By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

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  Political, Politics, Ruling

• Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

  Tacitus

  Gun, Law, Suffering

• In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

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  Struggle, Power, Politics

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, II. 74,

• Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

  Tacitus

  Compassion, Tears, Politics

• Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

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  Blood, Guilt, Politics

• In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Ignorance, Reality, Thinking

• Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

  Tacitus

  Wisdom, Foundation, Politics

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