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Gandalf: There are many powers in this world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. And against some, I have not yet been tested.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film written by Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson.

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Minimum decet libere cui multum licet.He who has great power should use it lightly. Seneca the Younger, Troades, 336.

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The intoxication with power is worse than drunkenness with liquor and such, for he who is drunk with power does not come to his senses before he falls.Mahābhārata, 55134:52, as translated by J. A. B. van Buitenen, p. 264.

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And they were saying with a loud voice: “The Lamb who was slaughtered is worthy to receive the power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.”John the Evangelist, Revelation 5:12.

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One needs to be nominalistic, no doubt: power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, p. 93.

Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, p. 96.

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One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, p. 97.

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Let us askhow things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc.we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, p. 97.

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The problem with power is that people pay attention to it, and its very easy to get beside yourself and use it in the wrong way.Lyda Green, President, Alaska State Senate.

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The sentiment is also found in Luke 12:48: from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked NIV.

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. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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O MEN, why do ye vainly think on things Too lofty, as if ye immortal were?Sibylline Oracles Warning against excessive hunger for power, . The Sibylline Oracles, Book XIV. The Internet Sacred Text Archive.

Sibylline Oracles Warning against excessive hunger for power, . The Sibylline Oracles, Book XIV. The Internet Sacred Text Archive.

Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. Tacitus, Annales AD 117, I. 21.

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Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. Tacitus, Annales AD 117, I. 30.

Imperium cupientibus nihil medium inter summa et præcipitia.In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. Tacitus, Annales AD 117, II. 74.

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Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. Tacitus, Annales AD 117, XI. 29.

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Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flagrantior est.Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. Tacitus, Annales AD 117, XV. 53.

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Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell. Virgil, Æneid 29-19 BC, VII. 312.

No one will ever take them down; the power lies on their side.Ron Wasserman, Go Go Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, United States of America: Saban

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Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.Archimedes.

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Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing — to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, The Funeral.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.Attributed to Charles V. Used also by Napoleon. See Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, No, II.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, p. 255.

Qui peut ce qui lui plaît, commande alors quil prie.Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. Pierre Corneille, Sertorius, IV. 2.

So mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!Barry Cornwall, Songs, The Sea in Calm, line 13.

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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?John Dryden, Medal, line 235.

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Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, I. 3. 336.

O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised Thus with the gods?Ben Jonson, Sejanus, Act I.

Nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, quum laudatur dis æqua potestas.There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. Juvenal, Satires, IV. 70.

Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. Juvenal, Satires, X. 96.

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Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, III. 4. 79.

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A cane non magno sæpe tenetur aper.The wild boar is often held by a small dog. Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 422.

Nunquam est fidelis cum potente societas.A partnership with men in power is never safe. Phaedrus, Fables, I. 5. 1.

Kann ich Armeen aus der Erde stampfen? Wächst mir ein Kornfeld in der flachen Hand?Can I summon armies from the earth? Or grow a cornfield on my open palm? Friedrich Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, I. 3.

Ich fühle eine Armee in meiner Faust.I feel an army in my fist. Friedrich Schiller, Die Rauber, II. 3.

Quod non potest vult posse, qui nimium potest.He who is too powerful, is still aiming at that degree of power which is unattainable. Seneca the Younger, Hippolytus, 215.

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Cornello: Don’t let them worry you Rose, you forget that the Sun God Leto blessed me with the Philosopher’s stone, plus I have far more experience than then heretic boys did.

Mr. Spock: Captain. It took millions of years for the Organians to evolve into what they are. Even the gods did not spring into being overnight. You and I have no reason to be embarrassed. We did, after all, beat the odds.

No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, But the whole boundless continent is yours.Jonathan Sewall, Epilogue to Addisons Cato. Written for the performance at the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, N.H.

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