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“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
― I Know This Much Is True
― I Know This Much Is True
“To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in Washington DC.”
― At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
― At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
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