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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.