Those who desire power...

Flint · 11-22-2011, 10:37 PM

...don't deserve it. Who said this?

zippyt · 11-22-2011, 10:41 PM

I dont know but i have a feeling the saying May come in handy SOON !!

classicman · 11-22-2011, 10:42 PM

I thought it was "Those who desire power must be kept from attaining it."

Still dunno who said it though.

jimhelm · 11-22-2011, 10:53 PM

Buddha

sexobon · 11-22-2011, 11:02 PM

your electric company

Trilby · 11-23-2011, 04:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sexobon

your electric company

Ha!

Once again Poetry has the Anwer:

Ozymandias -

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

Griff · 11-23-2011, 06:33 AM

If you were to summarize Jefferson's thought you could get to that but, I don't think he actually said it. I found this one though: "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

infinite monkey · 11-23-2011, 07:03 AM

I saw it recently on the cookies!

It's a cookie! :cookiemonster:

infinite monkey · 11-23-2011, 07:21 AM

I'm more awed by this cookie:

It's the raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny.

Indeed, indeed.

(I prefer Kellogs, but hey, that's just me.)

jimhelm · 11-23-2011, 08:39 AM

I said buddha last night while I was drinkin
But now that I'm sober ive been thinkin
Maybe I was wrong...was it Lincoln?

infinite monkey · 11-23-2011, 08:44 AM

Tonight when I'm drinkin
I'll try to start thinkin
About who wrote that stinkin
Quote

infinite monkey · 11-23-2011, 08:46 AM

Those who desire power...are doomed to repeat it?

infinite monkey · 11-23-2011, 08:47 AM

Power is as power does?

infinite monkey · 11-23-2011, 08:56 AM

Spexxvet · 11-23-2011, 09:33 AM

Flint ~~said~~ posted it

11-22-2011, 10:37 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Those who desire power... ...don't deserve it. Who said this? __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

11-22-2011, 10:41 PM	#2
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	I dont know but i have a feeling the saying May come in handy SOON !! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

11-22-2011, 10:42 PM	#3
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	I thought it was "Those who desire power must be kept from attaining it." Still dunno who said it though. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

11-22-2011, 10:53 PM	#4
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	Buddha __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

11-23-2011, 06:33 AM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	If you were to summarize Jefferson's thought you could get to that but, I don't think he actually said it. I found this one though: "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-22-2011, 11:02 PM	#5
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	your electric company

11-23-2011, 07:03 AM	#8
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I saw it recently on the cookies! It's a cookie! :cookiemonster:

11-23-2011, 07:21 AM	#9
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I'm more awed by this cookie: It's the raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny. Indeed, indeed. (I prefer Kellogs, but hey, that's just me.)

11-23-2011, 08:39 AM	#10
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	I said buddha last night while I was drinkin But now that I'm sober ive been thinkin Maybe I was wrong...was it Lincoln? __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

11-23-2011, 08:44 AM	#11
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Tonight when I'm drinkin I'll try to start thinkin About who wrote that stinkin Quote

11-23-2011, 08:46 AM	#12
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Those who desire power...are doomed to repeat it?

11-23-2011, 08:47 AM	#13
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Power is as power does?

11-23-2011, 08:56 AM	#14
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002

11-23-2011, 09:33 AM	#15
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Flint ~~said~~ posted it __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

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