It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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John Steinbeck
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
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George Deacon
I have brought peace to this land, and security, " he began." And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single...
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Iain Pears
Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.
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Suzy Kassem
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS...
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Rudyard Kipling
More Quotes By Sigmund Freud
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. <span...
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
