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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.