Power corrupts

Power corrupts
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
  

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Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.
Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.
It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.
It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
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.
Step after step the ladder is ascended
The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.