"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

Power, Happiness, Freedom, Truth

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"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Confusion is a weapon that is used by others to gain a temporary objective or advantage."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"Utilizing the Power of Your Heart is the most significant choice you will make in life."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Either I would change lives or end them. The second option is always available."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

Peter L. Berger, Austrian Sociologist

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"The real difference between men is energy."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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Explore more quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

Politics

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."

Leadership

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

Freedom

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

Leadership

"The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins."

Philosophy

"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

Service

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

Morality

"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."

Politics

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Freedom

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

Diplomacy