"The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious."

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Jean Rostand

#Power Quotes #Vocation Quotes

“We donâ€™t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
“There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.”
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.”
“All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.”
“It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.”
“Persecution matures young rebels.”
“I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.”

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