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| Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. |
| Eric Hoffer |
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| Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. |
| Frederick Douglass |
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| Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. |
| John Steinbeck |
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| Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. |
| Ralph Ellison |
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| Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. |
| George Orwell |
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| Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. |
| Saul Alinsky |
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| Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages |
| Rudyard Kipling |
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| That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while |
| Albert Einstein |
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