"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
-Blaise Pascal
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"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.“
-Blaise Pascal
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
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"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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