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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out