Power

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Eckhart Tolle

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Andrew Jackson

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

Andre Gide

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Aldous Huxley

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Edward R. Murrow

Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your throat.

Spanish proverbs

Where there are no dogs the fox is a king.

Italian proverbs

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

French proverbs

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Warren Buffett

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Alexander Graham Bell

Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

Jordan Peterson

If you let them lay the calf on your back it will not be long before they chip on the cow.

Italian proverbs

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

English proverbs

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

C.S Lewis

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Do not pay too much attention to money fame or power someday you'll meet person who cares for none of these and then you'll know how poor you're.

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