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What is good?—Everything that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 6, p. 170, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Antichrist, section 2 (prepared for publication 1888, published 1895).)
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
(Voltaire [Franηois Marie Arouet] (1694-1778), French historian, playwright.)
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The King o' Scots, and a' his power
Canna turn Arthur O'Bower.
(Unknown. The Wind (l. 3-4). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
(Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), U.S. president. Pocket veto of a land bill, December 4, 1833. Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. II, ed. J.D. Richardson, Washington (1908).)
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
(Milan Kundera (b. 1929), Czech author, critic. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, pt. 7, ch. 2 (1984).)
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You mean about success,
And how by its own logic it concentrates
All wealth and power in too few hands?
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Masque of Mercy.")
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
(P.J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. "Why God Is a Republican and Santa Claus Is a Democrat," preface, Parliament of Whores (1991).)
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
(John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908), U.S. economist. repr. In A View from the Stands (1986). "The United States," New York (November 15, 1971).)
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