Community Quote by Alfie Kohn

“when you use your limited powers to inflict petty punishments you demonstrate your weakness to the world. It just tells everyone you are unable…

— Mackey Chandler

“It’s only in a democracy where people are the problem … because they have some power, and people with power always get into trouble?”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others”

— Margaret Atwood

“When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.”

— Maurice Broaddus

“a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all…

— Judith Butler

“One who abuses his power, unaware that one day will be the victim of his own abuses”

— Michelangelo Saez

“We all have the power to influence others. It is up to us, whether we are going to abuse that power to manipulate people…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do…

— Mira Grant

“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.”

— Simon Young

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Another reason abusers don’t want to give up the ‘power’ is that they don’t want to give up the power.”

— Sara Niles

“a dangerous thing for any state to maintain its power by plugging up the vent of complaints, stifling the voices of the people. When…

— Jeff Shaara