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“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.”
― The Quest for Cosmic Justice
― The Quest for Cosmic Justice
“He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.”
― Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
― Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.”
― The Princess of Sparta
― The Princess of Sparta
“In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power.”
― Herzog
― Herzog
“How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“Constitutional government, the balance of power, legal guarantees, the whole edifice of political civilisation slowly built up over the course of the ages and always incomplete, is calmly pushed aside. They accept an absolute State, allegedly in the service of the Revolution; they are not interested in the plurality of parties and the autonomy of working-class organisations. They do not protest against lawyers bullying their clients and accused persons confessing to imaginary crimes. After all, is not revolutionary justice directed towards the ‘radical solution of the problem of coexistence’, whilst ‘liberal justice’ applies unjust laws?”
― The Opium of the Intellectuals
― The Opium of the Intellectuals
“The Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.”
― The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
― The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
“It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“The greatest proof of power is the mass grave, the camp as a field of the dead. However, total power here cancels itself. Death is the absolute antisocial fact. For that reason, the absolute power to kill can never become total. In order to escape this dilemma, it constantly searches out new victims, defining new groups of opponents. Everyone is on terror's proscription list - extended to its logical conclusion, all of humankind.”
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“The character of Superman is a rebuttal of Lord Acton's famous dictum: he has absolute power, but it does not corrupt him. Rather, his power grants him freedom from fear. This freedom allows him to be a superman, and to realize his potential by helping others.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy
“Power does not corrupt. Power reveals corruption. And absolute power reveals every single bit of corruption. So unless you want the dirty details of all your dreams made public, avoid absolute power.”
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“There is no such thing as absolute superiority in this universe! At night, a tiny candle wonderfully illuminates a place where the sun cannot illuminate! There will be moments and situations when even the powers considered to be the most superior will be helpless and ineffective against a weak power!”
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“Only a fool would want to rule the entire human race — even in normal times. And only an absolute fool would want to rule them during an apocalypse.”
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“Since creation is not independent of its creator and is the creator itself in a different form, the creation process is the process of recreation.”
― ABSOLUTE
― ABSOLUTE
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