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“Power only tires those who don't exercise it.”

“The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.”

States United Power United States Century Exercise Arrogance Agony

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.”

May States Force United Cases Power United States Exercise Police Western International Doctrine Impotence Hemisphere Adherence Police Power Monroe Doctrine

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.”

Should Trying Character Power Exercise Extremes

Book:Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

Source: Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

“Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.”

Kind Persons Form Power Groups Exercise Domination Manifold That One Person

Book:Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

Source: Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

“A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.”

May Facts Given Power Exercise Abstract

Book:Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

Source: Social Justice and the City

“All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.”

Men Self Power Discipline Circumstances Exercise Ideals Faculty Mastery Estates Adjustment Self Mastery

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.”

May Power Exercise Conscious Limitation

Author:William Howard Taft

“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.”

Feelings Political Nature Power Military Fine Exercise Noble Presidential Destructive Paradox Finest Unlimited Paradoxical Power Corrupts Unlimited Power Presidents Day Great Presidents

Book:William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.”

World Leadership Lines Powerful Power Hero Exercise Determined Unhappy Divided Heroic Interaction Powerless Small Parts

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.”

Men Power Wise Exercise Select Very Wise

Book:(420 p.)

Source: (420 p.)

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

“If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?”

Political Interest Power Democracy Five Policy Politician Exercise Accountability Interest Groups

Author:Tony Benn

“In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.”

Way Needs Power Exercise Scholar Spares Statesmen Abjection

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”

Men Should Motivational Power Exercise Work Out Fitness Self Control Aspire Weight Loss Fitness Motivational Power And Control Power Man

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”

Men Leadership Power Exercise Authority

Book:The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings

Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”

Men Feels Political Politics Leadership Pleasure Power Honest Honesty Citizens Exercise Constitution Fellows Dishonesty Honest Man

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

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