"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."

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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"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

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"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

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Power, Money, Lie, Problem, Life

"Most powerful is he who never cared for power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Power, Care, Never, Most

"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

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Explore more quotes by Edward Abbey

"I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident."

Society

"If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness."

Nature

"Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more."

Democracy

"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."

Darkness

"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."

Conservative

"Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp."

Heroism

"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

Imagination

"Anarchism is democracy taken seriously."

Politics

"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."

Government

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

Religion