“Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.”
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.”
— Ice Cube
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“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.”
— J. G. Holland
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“More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.”
— Simon Mainwaring
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“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
— Edmund Burke
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“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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“Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.”
— Simone Weil
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“When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”
— Michael Ende
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