Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Power is the ability to get things done.
The way to have power is to take it.
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.
We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.
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