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Margaret Thatcher1925–2013

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean⁠—power over people, power to the State.

Margaret Thatcher on power

Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1986)

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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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