"Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief."

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Source : 'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 12

Edmund Burke

#Power Quotes #Years Quotes #Relief Quotes

“Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.”
“Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to do is to get the kind of economic growth of the capitalist world. It can't be done. It creates the same kind of problems as in the capitalist world.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Lists are a form of power.”
“Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages.”
“If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.”
“I think that there's been a lot of people in Congress that didn't know all the ins and outs of the Constitution. I think we have a whole roomful of people that have record legislation in terms of quantity of pages that didn't read it.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 24, 2010.
“At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 yearsâ€™ time â€“ would the story of Mosesâ€™ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technological wonders? Here lies religionâ€™s biggest quandary. While science is squeezing the life out of God, how is religion going to muster a counterattack from here?”
“And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!”

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