Power is no blessing

Power is no blessing
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.
  

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.
A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.