"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."

Power, Corruption, Personality, Politics

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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Wolf, Lion, Mockery

"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Power, Master, Control, Freedom

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Fear, Courage, Caution

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Mind, Heart, Soul, Life

"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Power, Gospel, Church, Change

"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Power, Knowledge, Control, Books

"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Power, Money, Lie, Problem, Life

"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Power, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Power, Being, Miracles

"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."

John Green, American Author

Power, Determination, Weather, Life

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"In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched."

Politics

"Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes."

Society

"A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."

Philosophy

"Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced - in a word, insane."

Politics

"Life produces a different taste each time you take it."

Experience

"No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero."

Power

"I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."

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"Only fools prefer the past!"

"Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous."

"Fear is the mind-killer."

"A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."

"Life produces a different taste each time you take it."

"No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero."

"I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."