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"We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and …"

"Let us reexamine our attitude toward the cold war, remembering that we are not engaged in a debate, seeking to pile up debating points. We are not here distributing blame or pointing the finger of jud…"

"The intelligence is clear: continues to believe that his weapons of mass destruction programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. It is essential to his regional po…"

"The enforcement of price controls requires a government similar to that of Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia, in which practically anyone might turn out to be a police spy and in which a secret poli…"

"They stood where they stood by the power of the sword."

"I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection."

"The ideal of Morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest Strength, of most powerful life; which also has been named the ideal of poetic greatness. It is the maximum of the savage; a…"

"I used to get called a horse face.  And so I decided to embrace the horse and make it my spirit animal…And now…the horse is a huge part of my symbolism.  I gain a lot of power and strength from the ho…"

"Should you seek might, power, false honor, excess — seek that we would work for you to provide your temporal advantages — we will bring you as close to the throne as you wish, and then turn you over t…"

"If women take their bodies seriously—and ideally we should—then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of produc…"

"To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is …"

"Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should."

"This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle …"

"Yet all this is not ressentiment. These are only stages in the development of its sources. Revenge, envy, the impulse to detract, spite, *Schadenfreude*, and malice lead to ressentiment only if there …"

"The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind pen…"

"One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean "power" and "self-fulfillment."

"Once the will is resolved, one’s spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men."

"The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control."

"It is said a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, there is also no conscious sexual control. T…"

"...no legislator, at any period of the world, has willingly placed the seat of active power in the hands of the multitude: Because there it admits of no control, no regulation; no steady direction wha…"