“When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.” PeopleShouldTurnsPoliticsPowerWorstBeing TrueNightmareConcentrationFar AwayVigilanceWorst Nightmares Author:Ken Livingstone
“There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.” MenReasonTurnsPowerAdviceEarsControlledDeafGood AdvicePeer PressureDeaf Ears Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.” PeopleGovernmentTurnsPowerEconomicDefinitionsCorporateFascismCoveringClinicalsEconomic Power Author:Ralph Nader
“Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.” MenTurnsPowerAbsolutesClayDespotismAbsolute PowerDespotsAnti God Author:Eric Hoffer
“As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.” MayTurnsPowerAdvantageHarmValleysMills Book:Poems of King Alfred Source: Poems of King Alfred
“One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.” IfsReasonUseTurnsEnergyForceCreativityPowerCreativePsychologyTalentPossibilityHigherDiseasePoisonWickedDestructiveLazinessSheerGiftedPsychicsInactionDiagnosisNeurosisPsychoticCreative PowerCreativenessInactivityGiftedness Author:Marie-Louise von Franz