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- It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
- Stewart L. Udall (1920 - ), commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
- The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1839
- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
- Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
- The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
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