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Quotations by Subject: Power (34 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.: David Brin (1950 - )
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.: Michael Pritchard
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If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.: Ethel Mumford
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