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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the
bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of
peace.
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Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
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ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A
choice was made -- life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus
became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who
rejected an offer of power and control?
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to
alter the nature of his world.
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All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of
everything, he's no longer in your power.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till
those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into
the same hands.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and
excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger
the public liberty.
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From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that
society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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The right is not created in the exercise of power, but if the right does not have the power to become established, then power
will rule of itself.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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