The lust for power

The lust for power
The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.
  

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I willprepare and some day my chance will come.
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.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.
It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
They know enough who know how to learn.
I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.
A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.