“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”
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Response to FDA complaint (1954)
Context: The present critical state of international human affairs requires security and safety from nuisance interferences with efforts toward full, honest, determined clarification of man's relationship to nature within and without himself; in other words, his relationship to the Law of Nature. It is not permissible, either morally, legally, or factually, to force a natural scientist to expose his scientific results and methods of basic research in court. This point is accentuated in a world crisis where biopathic men hold in their hands power over ruined, destitute multitudes.
“Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?”
Source: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000), p. 248.

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 314.

“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
"Humanity", Ch.II "Ideologies: A way to live", Part IV

Gordon Brown says quitting EU would not be British https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36263256 BBC News (11 May 2016)
Post premiership

“The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.”
As quoted in Quotations for Our Time (1977), by Laurence J. Peter, p. 509
1970s
A Conversation with Martin de Maat (1998)
Context: What happens in the ensemble work is that in a cooperative work, the power of communication in being with each other in acceptance and "yes, and"-ing each other, is that you as an individual start to believe in yourself because you begin to see yourself in the others' eyes. Your ensemble, your group, your team, your committee, is the one that's believing in you and you pull it together to do it for them. You know, it's simply recognizing you're not alone. I'm way out in theory here; it's the study of what the power is, the power in improvisation and why it changes lives.... I'm crazy about it, and that's why I've dedicated my life to the study of it. The power is love, if you want to know the truth. It's love and unconditional acceptance. You put yourself in a place of support, unconditional acceptance and love for who you are, the way you are and your uniqueness, and what you do is grow. You surround yourself with people who are truly interested in you and listen to you, and you will grow. And it doesn't take much to start advancing you, it doesn't take much of that support, it doesn't take much of that love and that care and you can do it. You can play act with people. You can be in a state of play together.

the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 11.