It is a strange desire

It is a strange desire
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
  

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Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.
To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.
Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.
Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest
The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.