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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. -- Francis Bacon
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already. -- Elif Safak
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many. -- Hugo Black
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. -- John Maynard Keynes
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. -- Tacitus
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal. -- Hunter S. Thompson

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