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We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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 general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. – John Stuart Mill

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