"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
― Ambrose Bierce
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Power
― Ambrose Bierce
More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
- "Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
- "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
More In Power
- "When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out."― Billy Graham
- "Power and speed be hands and feet."― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued."― Julia Margaret Cameron