Power doesn't corrupt

Power doesn't corrupt
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
  

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.
What is well done is done soon enough.
In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.
Life without the Courage is death for slavery.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.