Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated wit

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. – Jean de La Fontaine

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The corporate woman has been defined as the liberated woman and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because shes so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. – Kenny Loggins

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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. – Joe Biden

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. – Milan Kundera

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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. – Rush Limbaugh

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