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Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use-of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.



Motivational Quote
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.


Happiness Quote
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Life Quote
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Relationship Quote
A relationship is what happens between two people who are waiting for something better to come along.

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