You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
There is no power above people power.
The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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