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"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
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"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
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"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."
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"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
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"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."
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"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
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"So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time."
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"Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances."
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"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
Power
"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
Creativity
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
Life
"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
History
"The facts are always less than what really happened."
Fact
"A desert is a place without expectation."
Expectation
"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Beauty
"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."
People
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
Social Issues
"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
Sacrifice
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