Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.
The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.
There is no power above people power.
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
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