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"What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?"
"I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power."
"The eagle suffers little birds to sing."
"The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does."
"The force of arms only reveals man s weakness."
"When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation."
"He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power."
"Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums."
"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."
"To negotiate is not to do as one likes."
"The sovereignty of the people is inalienable."
"Lack is more in means, than in principles."
"Passions change, politics are immutable."
"A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation."
"Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall."
"We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power."
"It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it."
"Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power."
"I am not a human being, I am dynamite."
"The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man."
