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“I am not a human being, I am dynamite.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, "Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.”

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Author:Sidney Hook

“Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.”

Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

“No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.”

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Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point