"The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty."

Power, Corruption, Reason, Judgment

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

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"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

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"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."

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