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“Because society makes its own governmental shapes; when a governing power wants to control society from the top-down, society will assess this and will…

— Herbert Tombeur

“We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to the power…

— Michel Foucault

“Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to…

— Frank Herbert

“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it…

— Christa Wolf

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and…

— Frederick Douglass

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

— Swami Vivekananda

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever…

— Arundhati Roy

“It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it;…

— Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

“And that brings me to my definition of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them…

— Eric Liu

“Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The…

— Emily Thorne

“The world is based on power. Power is simple. It is the ability to get others to do one’s will. Nothing more, nothing less—but…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr