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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

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.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.