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What is good?—Everything that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 6, p. 170, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). The Antichrist, section 2 (prepared for publication 1888, published 1895).)
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Liberal—a power worshipper without power.
(George Orwell (1903-1950), British author. "Politics and the English Language," Shooting an Elephant (1950).)
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Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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The power of lying is much less than the power of "what is not to be discussed."
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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With an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, l. 48-50, Lyrical Ballads (1798).)
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For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.
(Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 4 (1991).)
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 6, p. 106, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ, p. 63, trans. by R.J. Hollingdale, Baltimore, Penguin Books (1968). Twilight of the Idols, "What the Germans Lack," section 4 (prepared for publication 1888, published 1889).)
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 12, p. 215, selection 5[71], eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Unpublished note dating to Summer 1886Fall 1887, series on "European Nihilism," section 10 (June 10, 1887).)
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
(John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908), U.S. economist. repr. In A View from the Stands (1986). "The United States," New York (November 15, 1971).)
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Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Power," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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