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For that can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Medal (l. 235)
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Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Faust (I, 3, 336)
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My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in
whatever hands it is placed.
Sir William Jones
Quotes , Source: in a letter to Lord Althorpe
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O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Ben Jonson
Quotes , Source: Sejanus (act I)
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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , Source: Satires (IV, 70)
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Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Comus (l. 816)
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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (III, 4, 79)
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Refuse to wave the flag
Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse
to the dock.
Arundhati Roy
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This administration has broken faith with the people of America.
They have squandered the immense good will extended by other
nations.
Senator Edward M Kennedy
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Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".
Mao Tse-Tung
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We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.
Francis Bacon
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max Lerner
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
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