9th of September is the biggest wakeup call to all of us, for so many different things, for so many different reasons. Everything is for "power" ... here is some terrific quotes about power ...
"Men
have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life,
because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and
to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing."
--John
Dewey
"If
you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--
Abraham Lincoln
If
Christ had the power to defend himself from the Jews and refused to
use it, he was guilty of suicide.
-- Dennis
Diderot
America
in 1939 – 1941 wanted neither world power nor world responsibility,
only to be let alone; but world power and world responsibility were
forced upon her by the two nations, Germany and Japan, that badly
wanted both.
--
Samuel Eliot Morison
"Today,
not only in peasant homes but also in city skyscrapers, there lives
alongside of the twentieth century the tenth or the thirteenth. A
hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic
power of signs and exorcisms. The Pope of Rome broadcasts over the
radio about the miraculous transformation of water into wine. Movie
stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created
by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible
reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery!"
--
Leon Trotsky
"The
strongest is never strong enough to be always the master unless he
turns might into right and obedience into duty."
-- Rousseau
The
architects of power in the US must create a force that can be felt
but not seen. Power remains strong when it remains in the dark;
exposed to the sunlight, it begins to evaporate.
--
Samuel P. Huntington in “American Politics: The Promise of
Disharmony” p. 75.
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