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“It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

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“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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“Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

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“In the past... those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

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“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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“Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people’s.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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