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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
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Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
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Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
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Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC), from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Physics
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
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Heloise (1098 - 1164), Letter
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961), "On the Psychology of the Unconciousness", 1917
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Telegram, 24 May 1946
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 12, 1936
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