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"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."
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"The mind of a man!"
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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."
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"We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle."
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"Power is not powerful without wisdom."
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"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
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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."
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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."
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"People demand freedom only when they have no power."
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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
Life
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
Experience
"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."
Power
"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
Revolution
"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain."
Pain
"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."
War
"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours."
Act
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
Tradition
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
Being
"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread."
Man
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