To preserve power indefinitely, you have to get consent of the ruled. They have to want, to some degree, to be dominated.
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-Written by Thomas Jefferson about John Adams who paid journalist James Thomson Callender to publish it
-The Cincinnati Gazette 1828 on General Jackson
-Congressman Kenneth Rayner on President Franklin Pierce
-John Adams on Alexander Hamilton
-Stephen Douglas on Abraham Lincoln
is a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move. The fact that the player is compelled to move means that their position will become significantly weaker.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Ian Fleming
-Charlie Munger