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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
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.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
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 like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.