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• Sparing your helpless enemy who surely would have destroyed you, you demonstrated the advanced trait of mercy, something we hardly expected.
  We feel that there may be hope for your kind. Therefore you will not be destroyed....
• Therefore a wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince", Datalink...
• You'll learn to care for yourselves, with our help.
  And there's no trick to putting fruit on trees; you might even enjoy it....
• The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul.
  They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless....
• All you Klingons, you want to ravage helpless Earthwomen.
  Brute." -- They really should have named this, "I Married a Klingon." -- From DC's STAR TREK...
• No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
  -- John W. Scoville...
• I saw some awful things in Nam, but you really have to wonder at the mentality that would desecrate a helpless puma!
  -- Principal Skinner, "Separate Vocatio...
• If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
  -- Kahlil Gibran, 1923...
• In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermo
  "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here....