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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same se

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. – Bertrand Russell

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. – George W. Bush

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

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The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. – Herodotus

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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