"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
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"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
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"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."
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"Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it."
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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"To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals."
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"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light."
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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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"Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society."
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"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
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"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning."
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
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"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
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"There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it."
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"Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old."
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"The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."
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"In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power."
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"Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it..."
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