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"Power ought to serve as a check to power."
More quotes about Power
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln on Power -
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Margaret Thatcher on Power -
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
Bruce Lee on Power -
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche on Power -
"Character is power."
Booker T. Washington on Power
More quotes by Charles de Secondat
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"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."
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"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."
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"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."
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"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."
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"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."