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harangue
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Power accrues to people who control resources that others cannot access.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
When we do, we assume the politicians are clients in a patron–client relationship, and we assume their obligations will cloud their impartial judgment.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The test of a good theory lies in its ability to explain the past, for only if it does can we trust what it may tell us about the future.
John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
The surest way to keep your position and to build a power base is to help those with more power enhance their positive feelings about themselves.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
hortatory
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
The more we reflect upon all that occurs in the United States the more shall we be persuaded that the lawyers as a body form the most powerful, if not the only, counterpoise to the democratic element.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Edward O. Wilson, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
Atkins, Paul W. B.;Wilson, David Sloan.;Hayes, Steven C.; • Prosocial
He read Machiavelli at thirteen. He’s fascinated by power and knows that Peter is a means by which he can wield it.