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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power. (Allende Isabel)
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. (Allende Isabel)
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. (Allende Isabel)
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. (Allende Isabel)
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. (Allende Isabel)
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. (Allende Isabel)
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. (Allende Isabel)
Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. (Allende Isabel)
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. (Allende Isabel)
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. (Allende Isabel)
The look of a king is itself a deed. (Allende Isabel)
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. (Allende Isabel)
Power is every stealing from the many to the few. (Allende Isabel)
The measure of a man is what he does with power. (Allende Isabel)
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. (Allende Isabel)
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. (Allende Isabel)
He who pays the piper calls the tune. (Allende Isabel)
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. (Allende Isabel)
Voice of one, voice of none. (Allende Isabel)
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could. (Allende Isabel)
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty. (Allende Isabel)
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