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Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a…

— Francis Bacon

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

— Eric Hoffer

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and…

— Jeremy Taylor

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life…

— Noam Chomsky

It is the purity of man's heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

— William Shakespeare

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a…

— H. L. Mencken