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A friend in power is a friend lost
Henry B. Adams

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Sun Tzu

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Joseph Stalin

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck

Power Is Taken... Not Given
/Murphy's Law/

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
Edwin Land

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand /Anthem/

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Drucker

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell