Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child’s dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love.

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

Even aperson deprived of his own ideas and individuality, at the very moment he gains power, acquires substance and content The function of power is to transform the inner being of the holder of power. Power credit and fame create individuality and a face for a person deprived of these qualities by nature

With great power comes great responsibility.

Having power means a lot of things: getting closer to the truth and, therefore, to danger... having to make sacrifices... having to accept that difficult decisions you make will be misunderstood.

Power is the ability to turn your private judgment into public coordination.

Power turns pure being into a having.

With great power, comes great responsibility.

To us power is, first of all, the ability to define phenomena, and secondly the ability to make these phenomena act in a desired manner.

With great responsibility comes great power.

Great power involves great responsibility

My job is to hold power to account.

This is what “speaking truth to power” really means.