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"The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death."
"Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication."
"The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch."
"Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail."
"We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power."
"If you're not networking, you're not networking."
"I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away."
"Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil."
"You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento"
"Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused."
"more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will."
"One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it."
"Love IS the People's Power"
"What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes."
"To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal."
"Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe."
"No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior."
"Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails."
"Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet."
"power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money."
