The measure of a man is
what he does with power.
Plato
Most people abuse power.
They use power to dominate others.
They use power to destroy others.
Ultimately, when you do this, you lose it.
Frederick Lenz
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us.
He is a voice inside. Look for your devil
in yourself, not in the others.
Don't forget that the one
who knows his devil, knows his God.
Shams Tabrizi
People seem good while they are oppressed,
but they only wish to become oppressors in
their turn: life is nothing but a competition
to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil
committed by nobodies, that is, by
human beings who refuse to be persons.
Hannah Arendt
Power is never the property of an individual;
it belongs to a group and remains in existence
only so long as the group keeps together.
Hannah Arendt
The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often,
and sometimes frightened. But no price
is too high to pay for the privilege
of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling
Competition is the law of the jungle,
but cooperation is the law of civilization.
Peter Kropotkin
