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A prudent dictator nips rebellion in the bud. That is why we have reiterated the claim that only people willing to engage in really nasty behavior should contemplate becoming dictators. The softhearted will find themselves ousted in the blink of an eye.
The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Aware that great violence and injustice have been done to our environment and society, we are committed to not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. We will do our best to select a livelihood that helps realize our ideal of understanding and compassion.
Being Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh
The power cube is, in the first instance, a visual representation that captures in a single image both the different mechanisms, the different venues and the variable reach of power. It memorably portrays the idea that power in all three dimensions (relabelled as visible, hidden and invisible forms) can operate in different social or political spaces (which may be closed or invited or claimed) and at different scales or levels of action (from the household and local to national to global). The ‘mechanisms’ or ‘forms’ refer to what we have called the ‘dimensions’. Spaces are ‘opportunities, moments and channels where citizens as social actors can potentially channel challenge and change policies, discourses, decisions and relationships which affect their lives and interests’
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
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