The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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!
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.