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Power Over Others Quotes

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

Matthew Henry
Able, Power Over Others
Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.124, Harper Collins

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Humility, Gains, Power Over Others

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

Ursula K. Le Guin
People, Victim, Power Over Others
A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

John Lancaster Spalding
Increase, Servant, Power Over Others
John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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