"The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear."
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"Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life."
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"The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs."
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"In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not."
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"There is no strength without justice."
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"A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults."
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"A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls."
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"The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized."
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"Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them."
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"Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world."
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"How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man."
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"We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right."
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"Ideas... they have the power"
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"the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun."
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"every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power."
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"To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox."
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"The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All."
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"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."
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"Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below."
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"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."
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