"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

Power, Duty, Evil, Necessity

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"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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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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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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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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"Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

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"Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."

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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."

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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."

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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."

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"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."

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