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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) | Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. | |
| Ashleigh Brilliant | All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power | |
| Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982) | Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen. | |
| Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970) | Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. | |
| David Brin | 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. | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. | |
| Jimi Hendrix | When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. | |
| John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic | I googled the quote 'Power means not having to respond.' Nothing happened. | |
| John Lehman (1981 - 1987) | Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. | |
| Michael Wikoff | Power is a wonderful thing that people without it like to say corrupts people with it. | |
| Stewart L. Udall | We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. | |
| Unknown | All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. |
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