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"No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ...
Any man who has lived at all
knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. ...
And if he does know it,
he knows also that neither he nor any man
ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate."
-- C. P. Snow
[Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE] (1905-1980) English novelist, physical chemist
Source: the book, The Light and the Dark, 1947
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/C..P..Snow.Quote.04E0
"The individual is the true reality of life.
A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State,
nor for that abstraction called 'society,' or the 'nation,'
which is only a collection of individuals."
-- Emma Goldman
(1869-1940) Russian-American anarchist political activist, writer
Source: The Place of the Individual in Society
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Emma.Goldman.Quote.733F
"The jaws of power are always open to devour,
and her arm is always stretched out, if possible,
to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing."
-- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
1765
http://libertytree.ca/quotes/John.Adams.Quote.0B0E
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