When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

He hath no power that hath not power to use.

He hath no power that hath not power to use.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are

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.]

Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't

Refuse to wave the flag
Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse
to the dock.

Refuse to wave the flag
Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse
to the dock.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, read more

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.