All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
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.
The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
Power is always a corrupting influence.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.
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