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Power Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the…
- History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order…
- The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that…
- Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial…
- There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments…
- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the…
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- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo