Thomas Carlyle on Power
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Thomas Carlyle, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #104991: "A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures."
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #140994: "In the lowest broad strata of the population, equally as in the highest and narrowest, are produced men of every kind of genius; man for man, your chance of genius is as good amon…"
2 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle on Power
"A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures."
"In the lowest broad strata of the population, equally as in the highest and narrowest, are produced men of every kind of genius; man for man, your chance of genius is as good among the millions as among the units;—and class for class, what must it be! From all classes, not from certain hundreds now but from several millions, whatsoever man the gods had gifted with intellect and nobleness, and power to help his country, could be chosen: O Heavens, could,—if not by Tenpound Constituencies and the force of beer, then by a Reforming Premier with eyes in his head, who I think might do it quite infinitely better. Infinitely better. For ignobleness cannot, by the nature of it, choose the noble: no, there needs a seeing man who is himself noble, cognizant by internal experience of the symptoms of nobleness."