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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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.
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Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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Stewart L. Udall (1920 - ), commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
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