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“Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.”
“At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish.”
“More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it.”
“Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.”
“Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don't.”
“The funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it's the people above and all around you who get the final say.”
“Ive come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there ...”
“It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as se...”
“Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.”
“Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.”
“Why would a god sacrifice her life if she was God? Just show real power and send an army of angels and there'd be no debate.”
“Van Eck raised a brow. "How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.”
“We are what we read -- and the power of books to transform the minds and personalities of their readers can give cause for anxiety as well as for celebration.”
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
“Power breeds resentment and withers the slow-growing plant that is trust, and people who use it to capture others not only fail to make friends but often end up captives themselves. And perhaps wha...”
“In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.”
“You have the power to make your own choices. Everything in this world depends upon you ... its all about how you want to spend your life .. once you understand this fact you can come out of illusio...”
“Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people dont.”
“Power makes you lazy. Insofar as our earlier theoretical discussion of structural violence revealed anything, it was this: that while those in situations of power and privilege often feel it as a t...”
“In general the power drive is given free rein when it can appear under the cloak of objective and moral rectitude. People are the most cruel when they can use cruelty to enforce the "good."In daily...”
