Kata-kata Tentang Kuasa

Cuba kita baca perihal-perihal kuasa dari perspektif penulis-penulis/filusuf-filusuf agong dunia. Sebab kita negara-bangsa yang separuh kapitalis-separuh berpusat, pemikiran ini nampaknya sesuai. Bila baca petikan kata ini, cuba-cubalah padankan yang mana paling tepat untuk menggambarkan pemerintahan-politik kita kini. Silalah nikmati... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. * Lord Acton Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. * Saul Alinsky I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. * Jeffrey Archer We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. * Stephen Vincent Benét Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. * Ralph Ellison Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. * John Kenneth Galbraith Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. * Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. * Eric Hoffer I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. * Thomas Jefferson Power is the great aphrodisiac. * Henry Kissinger You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power--he's free again. * Alexander Solzhenitsyn Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. * Gloria Steinem