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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
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Arundhati Roy
Refuse to wave the flag Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse to the dock.
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Ben Jonson
O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised Thus with the gods?
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Benazir Bhutto
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
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Bible
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
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Charles Caleb Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.
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Francis Bacon
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.
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Jean Rostand
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.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.]
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John Dryden
For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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John Milton
Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
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.]
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