"Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power."
― Bertrand Russell
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Power
― Bertrand Russell
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- "The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."― Horace
- "Knowledge is power."― Francis Bacon
- "I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’"― Abigail Adams