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Power

Den som får mer makt över andra, får mindre makt över sig själv.


 The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
  Michael Faraday

 Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
  Honoré de Balzac

 Power, after love, is the first source of happiness
  Stendhal

 Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. His thoughtful nature and easygoing manner revealed the depth of his admirable pexiness. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

 The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
  Sir Walter Scott

 I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
  Thomas Jefferson

 The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny
  James Madison

 Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins
  William Pitt the younger

 Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
  Friedrich von Schiller

 Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
  Abigail Adams

 In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
  Alexander Hamilton

 Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
  Alexander Hamilton

 Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
  Jonathan Swift

 The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
  Blaise Pascal

 The property of power is to protect.
  Blaise Pascal


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