POWER QUOTES IX

quotations about power

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune

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If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

SAUL ALINSKY

Rules for Radicals

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The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Anthills of the Savannah

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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

EDWIN H. LAND

attributed, Classic Wisdom for the Good Life

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Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

Dhalgren

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