Power is like a pistol with barrels that point in both directions. When one with power pulls the trigger against someone with lesser power, one barre… - Gerry Spence

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Power is like a pistol with barrels that point in both directions. When one with power pulls the trigger against someone with lesser power, one barrel fires in the direction of the intended victim while the other fires into the person who has pulled the trigger. As a weapon, power has little to offer. It germinates resentment and reaps hatred. It fosters the deep and abiding need for revenge. Power exercised without love releases an adverse Karma that returns to defeat us — where or when we never know. But it will return with all its destructive force, with all its gathered vengeance. Revenge is the bastard child of justice.

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About Gerry Spence

Gerald Leonard Spence (born 8 January 1929) is an American lawyer and writer.

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Birth Name: Gerald Leonard Spence
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Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

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