“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”
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“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.”
“The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.”
“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'”
“If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”
“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”
“The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.”
“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.”
“With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.”
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
“Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.”
“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.”
“I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.”
“In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.”
“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”
“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.”
“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.”
“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
“Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”
“It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.”
“I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.”
“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
“We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.”