Quote by Paul Valery
Power without abuse loses its charm. - Paul Valery

Power without abuse loses its charm. – Paul Valery

Other quotes by Paul Valery

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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Art
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

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alone
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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Science
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power
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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. – Benito Mussolini

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power

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

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power

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late! – Jane Siberry

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power

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. – Alvin Adams

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power

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Death doesnt affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesnt concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Death

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. – Thomas Jefferson

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Taxes

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with. – Margaret Cho

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Future

I dont intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. – Harold Pinter

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Intelligence