"Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same."

Power, Authority, Identity, Morality

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"Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same."

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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

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"Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

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"What is art but a way of seeing?"

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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

Nation

"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."

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"A man is only as good as what he loves."

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"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."

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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

War

"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."

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"The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know."

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"The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature."

Freedom