"Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind."

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Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, p. 245 (To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946), 2004.

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#People Quotes #Danger Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.”

Source : Richard Smoley (2002). “Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition”, p.155, Shambhala Publications
“Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.”
“I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.”
“When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum.”
“These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.”
“The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.”

Source : Sidney Hook (1978). “The Hero in History: Myth, Power, Or Moral Ideal? : Remarks”
“I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.”
“Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.”

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