power Quotes

“Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“The object of power is power.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

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“the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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“Because beauty is power the way money is power the way a loaded gun is power.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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