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“power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.”

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Author:Gertrude Atherton

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.”

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Author:Alexander Hamilton

“In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”

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Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.”

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Book:All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts

Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts

“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.”

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Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”

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Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.”

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Book:Johnsonian miscellanies

Source: Johnsonian miscellanies

“Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.”

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Author:Francois-Noel Babeuf

“Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.”

“[I]n any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.”

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Book:The Souls of Black Folk

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

“Where ambition is absolute, limits are irrelevant.”

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Book:Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

Source: Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story

“Monsters are real. Maybe they’re not supernatural or satanic beings, maybe they don’t take unnatural forms, and maybe they don’t feed on human flesh or blood, but they do exist, and humanity is powerless against them. Humans are inherently lazy, fragile, weak, cowardly, pathetic, self-centered, self-indulgent, and self-destructive. Very few have what it takes to overcome these flaws. The only thing that can kill a monster is a bigger monster.”

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Book:The Shadow Angel: Genesis

Source: The Shadow Angel: Genesis

“I have realized that the world and its people will never be perfect; and thus, I have grown wiser. I have learned that every aspect of life owns an injustice. I have seen that every human soul is laudable. Thus, you have the power to be enlightened.”

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Author:Kylee Carrier