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Thomas Bailey Aldrich : The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Joseph De Maistre : " Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Victor Hugo : " Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Reinhold Niebuhr : " Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Oscar Wilde : " Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Walter Bagehot : " So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Socrates : " I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Oscar Wilde : " There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Napoleon Bonaparte : " We cannot escape from the arbitrariness of the judge, unless we place ourselves under the despotism of the law. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Marquis De Sade : " If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Donatien de Sade : " At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second. " # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich: " To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am." # Age and Aging

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich: " The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks." # Despotism # Power # Humankind

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich: " To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age." # Age and Aging

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