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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

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How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

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Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

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I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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