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“Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.” - Plato

“Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire for power.” - Thomas Hobbes

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“The origin of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual goodwill men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.”

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

“You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.” - Hobbes