It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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.
Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
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.
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.
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
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