The weakness of my position does not imply a strengthening of yours.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.

Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.

Why are you weak? First of all, you spend billions of dollars on propaganda telling your people and the world what a great "democracy" you have. You tell them you have no political prisoners. You say that all political ideas have freedom of expression and on and on. If your form of democracy is so great, why are you afraid of political ideas that are so different? Why do you attempt to suppress them? If you are so sure of your form of democracy, why don't you open the flood gates and allow all ideas and ideologies to contend? That's a sign of strength. But you are afraid – therefore you are strategically weak!

But Bernstein says this is a trap. Explaining is almost always veiled dominance. You’re not trying to educate; you’re still trying to win. The subtext is, “Here’s why I am right and you are wrong.

The rules you explain are less convincing that the ones you don't explain- or have to explain.

When you abide by the rituals of power instead of establishing your own, you reinforce the opposing power frame.

I have no special virtue to make me resent him. One must have strength in order to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty.

Quien me tiene de un hilo no es fuerte; lo fuerte es el hilo.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

When you are reacting to the other person, that person owns the frame. When the other person is reacting to what you do and say, you own the frame.

When you are responding ineffectively to things the other person is saying and doing, that person owns the frame, and you are being frame-controlled.

How can you claim to be strong, when your minds are so feeble.