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“It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always.”

Care Emotion Responsibility Tears Easier Protect Ambition Deny Heal Preserves Destructive Wielding Power

Book:Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

Source: Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

“... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.”

Ifs Men May States Politics Natural Position Theory Prove Authority Liberalism Enlightened Allies Establishment Monopoly Cautious Wielding Power

Author:Susan Sontag

“Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she's rallied tons of people to battles that they don't normally get involved in.”

People Thinking Kind Movement Involved Battle Models Senate Get Involved Demonstration Wielding Power

Author:Ben Wikler

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

Inspirational Motivational Fear Power Subjects Losing Human Rights Corruption Oppression Scourge Power Corrupts Burma Losing Power Corrupt Power Power And Corruption Power Corruption Wielding Power

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.”

People Way Government Certain Principles Circumstances Pressure Unjust Immoral Tactics Nelson Boycott Wielding Power

Author:John Berger

“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”

Corruption Scourge Power Corrupts Burma Losing Power Political Leadership Corrupt Power Power And Corruption Women In Politics Power Corruption Wielding Power

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”

“Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.”

Art Politics Wielding Power

Author:Indira Gandhi

“The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.”

Feels Should Ideas Problem Comfortable Femininity Ambivalent Wielding Power

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.”

Should Process Community Liberty Democracy Modern Organized Organized Religion Wielding Power

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss