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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without pow

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Change
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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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God
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Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Peace
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. – Oriana Fallaci

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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. – Maggie Kuhn

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power

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. – Oskar Schindler

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When every physical and mental resources is focused, ones power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. – Norman Vincent Peale

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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword. – Samuel Johnson

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My urges to write poetry are lesbian, but whatever compels me to prose is straight. – Agavé Powers, 1994

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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. – Denis Diderot

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Im really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. – Emma Watson

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