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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Power tends to get confused with repression.
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
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.
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 the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
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.