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  • The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

  • A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an "elite" scheming to oppress the rest of us.

    "Exeunt the Humanities". Essay by Jacques Barzun (1980) published in his book "The Culture We Deserve" (p. 117), 1989.
  • Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

    Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.124, Harper Collins
  • There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

    Baby   Moguls   Tiny  
    "Landmark Study Reveals That CEOs Are Remarkably Similar to Babies" by Stanley Bing, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.
  • Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

    Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin
  • He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn't go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself. He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures.

  • You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.

  • But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

  • I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

    Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.416, Penguin
  • Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

  • If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

    Worship   Weak   Feels  
    "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.
  • The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

    Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.27, VM eBooks
  • When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  • It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there.

    Religious   Lying   Mean  
  • Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

    Hero   People   Evil  
    "Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast".
  • True Power is within, and it is available now.

    Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.45, New World Library
  • Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

  • The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

    On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)
  • I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

    Exercise   Men   Mind  
  • Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

    Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.45, New World Library
  • Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

  • This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more?

    Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.256, Simon and Schuster
  • Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

  • Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

    Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.405, Random House
  • I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

    A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California
  • Worship power - you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.

    Stupid   Smart   Feelings  
    "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". September 19, 2008.
  • The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.

  • If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Trapnest means “The Trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other.

    Mean   Men   Names  
    "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.
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