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People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.