“Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.”
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Hitler
2 quotes“I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered...”
Aeschylus
2 quotes“Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.”
Frank Herbert
2 quotes“Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.”
Hamilton
2 quotes“Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
Alice Walker
2 quotes“Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.”
Henry Kissinger
2 quotes“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
Ezra Pound
2 quotes“Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one'...”
John Adams
2 quotes“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”
Catherine the Great
2 quotes“Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.”
Christopher Marlowe
2 quotes“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1”