The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
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.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.