Power will intoxicate

Power will intoxicate
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
  

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What is well done is done soon enough.
Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character
If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!
Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.
The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.
Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.