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"Only he deserves power who every day justifies it."
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"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."
"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"
"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."
"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
"Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness."
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"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."
"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
"Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up."
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