"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."

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"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."

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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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"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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"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself."

John Sexton, American Educator

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself ."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"When thou goest to woman take thy whip."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'."

Alan Moore, British Writer

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"One who has great wisdom has great power."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Intelligence is a moral category."

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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

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"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."

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"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."

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"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

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"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."

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