There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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.
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
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