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    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    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.”
    ― David Brin
    tags: life, power
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    Ayn Rand
    “Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: corruption, education, power, tyranny
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    Victor Hugo
    “More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: idea, philosophy, power
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    Robert Harris
    “Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
    ― Robert Harris, Imperium
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    Melissa de la Cruz
    “It's always good to be underestimated.”
    ― Melissa de la Cruz, Lost in Time
    tags: adantges, power, smarts, strentgh-and-weakness, war
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    “There is a special place in hell for women that will not help one another.”
    ― Rae Mariz, The Unidentified
    tags: power
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    Booker T. Washington
    “Character is power.”
    ― Booker T. Washington
    tags: power
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    John Marsden
    “My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.”
    ― John Marsden, A Killing Frost
    tags: feelings, imagination, memory, mind, power, spirit, survival
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    E.J. Patten
    “And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.”
    ― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile
    tags: evil, power
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    John Christopher
    “Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.”
    ― John Christopher, The Prince in Waiting
    tags: power
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    Bertrand de Jouvenel
    “Power changes its appearance but not its reality.”
    ― Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
    tags: power
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    Nihad Sîris
    “You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.”
    ― Nihad Sirees
    tags: nationalism, politics, power, traitor
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    Robert Browning
    “A lion may die of an ass's kick.”
    ― Robert Browning, Robert Browning's Poetry
    tags: courage, fates, life, power, weakness
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    Alfred de Vigny
    “One is always a good master when one isn’t the master”
    ― Alfred de Vigny, Stello
    tags: power
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
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    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    ― Jose Marti
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
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    George Burns
    “Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: humor, politics
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    Jon Stewart
    “You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
    ― Jon Stewart
    tags: democracy, government, humor, politics, public-opinion
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    Marie Lu
    “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
    ― Marie Lu, Legend
    tags: courage, freedom, inspirational-attitude, leadership, politics, revolution, society, strength
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa
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    Pericles
    “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
    ― Pericles
    tags: politics
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    Aristotle
    “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: peace, peacemaking, politics, war
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
    tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics
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    Frederick Douglass
    “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: abolition, human-rights, politics, slavery, suffrage
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    Bill Maher
    “I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: bible, bill-of-rights, christianity, constitution, politics, religion
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    Bill Maher
    “The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."

    (The Decider, July 21, 2007)”
    ― Bill Maher
    tags: dunning-kruger-effect
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    “In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”
    ― Peter Stone
    tags: life, politics
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    H.L. Mencken
    “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: politics
    248 likes



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