Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Power is not alluring to pure minds

Power is not alluring to pure minds

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann read more

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.]

Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.

Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.