Wielding Power Quotes

• Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

  Indira Gandhi

  Art, Politics

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• No es el poder lo que corrompe, sino el miedo. El miedo a perder el poder corrompe a quienes lo ejercen y el miedo al azote del poder corrompe a quienes están sometidos a él.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspiración, motivación, miedo

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). "Freedom from fear: and other writings", Penguin (Non-Classics)

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  No es el poder el que corrompe, sino el miedo.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Corrupt Power, Power Corrupts, Corruption

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). "Freedom from fear: and other writings", Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Ideas, Problem, Should

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• Algunas personas siguen defendiendo las teorías del goteo que suponen que el crecimiento económico, fomentado por un mercado libre, logrará inevitablemente una mayor justicia e inclusión en el mundo. Esta opinión, que nunca ha sido confirmada por los hechos, expresa una confianza burda e ingenua en la bondad de quienes ejercen el poder económico y en el funcionamiento sacralizado del sistema económico imperante.

  Pope Francis

  Desigualdad económica, Justicia, Personas

  "La alegría del Evangelio: Evangelii Gaudium". Libro de Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. 26 de noviembre de 2013.

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• La religión organizada, que ejerce el poder sobre la comunidad, es antitética al proceso de lo que la democracia moderna debería definir como libertad. Cuanto antes prescindamos de ella, mejor.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Community, Democracy, Liberty

  "Does Religious Liberty Equal Freedom to Discriminate?" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• It is easier to kill than to heal. It is easier to destroy than to preserve. It is easier to tear down than to build. Those who feed on destructive emotions and ambitions and deny the responsibilities that are the price of wielding power can bring down everything you care for and would protect. Be on guard, always.

  Ana Obispo

  Ambition, Responsibility, Tears

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.372, Penguin

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• As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

  John Berger

  Government, People, Way

  "We must speak out". www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.

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• ... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Allies, May

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• Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she's rallied tons of people to battles that they don't normally get involved in.

  Ben Wikler

  Thinking, People, Battle

  "What Should Bernie Sanders Do Next?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2016.

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