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In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

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