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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but tha

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. – George Bernard Shaw

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Power ought to serve as a check to power. – Charles de Secondat

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I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you. – Ayelet Waldman

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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! – Samuel Richardson

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. – Aristotle

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