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«The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.»
«The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are»
«The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Literature,
Power,
Writers
| Keywords:
author, engaging, familiar
«Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Lies,
Power
| Keywords:
absolute, Absolute Power, possession, Prophecies, prophesy
«The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Power,
Religion
| Keywords:
apostles, converts, persecuting, preaching, retain, The Apostle, The three
«Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.»
«Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
abandon, derived, distressed, emolument, intoxicate, intoxicated, intoxicates, intoxicating, in the midst, look to, one year, relief, willingly
«The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.»
«Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.»
«Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill»
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