“Consider power as NOT getting people to obey you, but getting people to work in harmony with you with the goal being mutual benefit.”

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rapper 1982

Gregory Maguire (1954) Novelist

“Now it is all over. The great work is accomplished. And the results of the work!... Get all you can, gorge yourselves, grow a fat paunch; it is no longer a question of being a great people, of being a powerful people, of being a free nation, of casting a bright light; France no longer sees its way to that.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Napoleon the Little (1852), Book V, IX
Napoleon the Little (1852)

“People keep saying, "How’d you get power?" Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That’s it.”

David Miscavige (1960) leader of the Church of Scientology

On achieving the position of leader of Scientology — .

“When organizations are unable to make new strategies — when people evade the work of choosing among different paths in the future — then you get vague mom-and-apple-pie goals everyone can agree on. Such goals are direct evidence of leadership’s insufficient will or political power to make or enforce hard choices.”

Richard Rumelt (1942) American economist

Source: Good Strategy Bad Strategy, 2011, p. 64

“Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.”

Alexei Panshin book Rite of Passage

Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 9 (p. 126).

“And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

“Anytime you have to threaten people to get them to laugh at your joke you have to consider it less than successful, okay?”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 748)

“I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Source: Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

“Consider power as NOT getting people to obey you, but getting people to work in harmony with you with the goal being mutual benefit.”

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