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“Power is no more to be committed to men without discipline and restriction than alcohol.” — H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia
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“Power is legitimate only when it is under contract.” — Walter Lippmann, “The Defense of Civility,” Essays in the Public Philosophy
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“The exercise of power is a dangerous delight.” — Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
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“’You can speak truth to power,’ Joel-Andrew explained, ‘but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.’” — Jack Cady, The Off Season
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“The ultimate insanity is to so organize society that power, wealth, and information are concentrated in the hands of so few people that they have the power, for whatever reason, to put to death our species and the living earth as well. But so we have.” — Dee Hock, Autobiography of a Restless Mind
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“Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.” — John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
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“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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“It is not true that youth looks before it with the mechanical gaze of a well-drilled soldier. Its quarrel is not with the past but with the present, where its elders are so obviously powerful and no cause seems lost if it seem to threaten that power.” — William Butler Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
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