„Olyan emberekre kell bízni a hatalmat, akik számára a hatalom teher. Ez akkor valamiféle szociális szolgálat, kötelesség lenne.”
Eugène Ionesco 8
román–francia származású francia író 1909–1994Hasonló idézetek

„A hatalom nem korrupt. A félelem az... a hatalom elvesztésétől való félelem.”

„Vannak emberek, akik szeretik a hatalmat, másoknak pedig hatalmuk van szeretni.”

Hova tovább? (1967)
Eredeti: There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.