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Power Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,…
- True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
- The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice…
- Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder…
- Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
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- A good intention clothes itself with power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle