5,584 Quotes About Power



  • Author Boris Pasternak
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    As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

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  • Author Victor Hugo
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    On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.(One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.)

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  • Author Jane Austen
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    But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome.

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