Absolute power Quote by Dean Koontz

“The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are…

— Elizabeth Samet

“And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“The power of the Dark Side cannot be dispersed among the masses. It must be concentrated in the few who are worthy of the…

— Drew Karpyshyn

“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws us along…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action...If we do not act, we shall…

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1967

“If there is a dark and hostile power which traitorously fixes a thread in our hearts in order that, laying hold of it and…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the…

— Victor Hugo

“Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for…

— Aldous Huxley

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it…

— Thomas Hobbes

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified…

— John Stuart Mill

“All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else—in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature—in a much more fundamental way…

— Fazlur Rahman