Aung San Suu Kyi
Politician, Activist
"It is not power that corrupts but fear."
Wielding Power quotes
Wielding Power
4 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Indira Gandhi
Politician
"Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power."
Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment."
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