"He who has his thumb on the purse has the power."
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"Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects."
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"People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous."
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"Knowledge is only potential power."
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"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
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"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power."
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"There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue."
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"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."
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"An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood."
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"It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm."
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"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."
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"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality."
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"If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few."
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"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure."
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"The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado."
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"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."
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