Power always results in a win-win solution, force produces win-lose situations. D. Hawkins, Power vs. Force, S. ?

• When confronted with human problems, force will not bring a lasting solution. That is why I attach great importance to the feeling of mutual love among all human beings, as well as to the sense of responsibility of community life. These concepts are the source of peace everywhere in the world. They are the origin of all individual and collective fulfillment in a human community and therefore of concern to us all. H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso [LoC 570] (*1935) Buddhist leader of religious officials of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, monk, Facebook comment, 28. February 2011

• If we allow the "I-It" way of viewing the world to dominate our thinking and actions, we will be spiritually emaciated and pauperized, and live lives of "quiet desperation." John Barich, A Few Thoughts on Martin Buber's I and Thou

• One cannot resist it. It gets you below the belt and not in your mind, your brain just counts for nothing, your sympathetic system is gripped. It is a power that fascinates people from within, it is the collective unconscious which is activated, it is an archetype which is common to them all that has come to life. And because it is an archetype, it has historical aspects and we cannot understand the events without knowing history. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychoanalytist, depth psychologist

• It's been extremely important to me to interact with a woman (Riane Eisler) who is able to love me as I'm able to love her on some basis of equality. It takes up so many marriages, and so many affairs [...] to work through the dominator-dominated patterning that's built into us. [...] Women are making this breakthrough and they've begun to see out beyond this cage that every male is still encased in, almost without exception. David Loye, Ph.D. (*1925) US American social psychologist, evolutionary systems scientist, partnership researcher, author

• Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Eric Hoffer [LoC 505] (1902-1983) US American social writer, philosopher

• Conditions like slavery, hunger or illiteracy become morally repugnant when we discover ways to discontinue the practices that sustain them. As long as the only way we can see to get a job done is to force another person to do it, we inure ourselves to his or her pain, and consider this a "normal" condition. As long as we see no way to get food to hungry people, we repress our true reactions. But when we find a way of dealing with these situations, of alleviating the other person's pain and thus our own, we move quickly to do this. Robert Fuller, Ph.D. (*1936) US American professor in physics, college president, rankism and dignity researcher, author, lecturer, A Better Game Than War. Understanding the origin of our "fear of the other," may lead us to the elimination of war, magazine In Context, The Foundations Of Peace (IC#4), David Hoffman, pg. 18, autumn 1983

• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) third US president, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, 4. Juli 1776, Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774), The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols.) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 1, pg. 211, 1905

• The Internet is a challenge for everyone who wants to have power.
  The Internet is a challenge for the formation of power.
  - Any hierarchy is in question,
  - any expert is in question,
  - any gate keeper is in question, whenever a person wants to keep a powerful position
  because the possibilities to circumvent, to go around, are quite high.
  I cannot be powerful in the net just by will.
  I can only be powerful by perfection [excellence].
  It's a matter of empathy, not a matter of trivial power.
  Video interview with Peter Kruse Ph.D. (*1955) German psychologist, expert on complexity processing in intelligent networks, CEO of Nextpractice, The Network is Challenging Us, presented by Mefeedia, minute 11:22, 26:50 minutes duration, 31. March 2010

• The Internet is a challenge for everyone who wants to have power. The Internet is a challenge for the formation of power.
  - Any hierarchy is in question,
  - any expert is in question,
  - any gate keeper is in question, whenever a person wants to keep a powerful position because the possibilities to circumvent, to go around, are quite high.
  I cannot be powerful in the net just by will. I can only be powerful by perfection. It's a matter of empathy, not a matter of trivial power. Video interview with Peter Kruse Ph.D. (*1955) German psychologist, expert on complexity processing in intelligent networks, CEO of Nextpractice, The Network is Challenging Us, presented by Mefeedia, minute 11:22, 26:50 minutes duration, 31. March 2010

• Rules and regulations, laws and contracts, can never replace clarity of shared purpose and clearly, deeply held principles about conduct in pursuit of it […] Without a deeply held, commonly shared purpose that gives meaning to their lives; without deeply held, commonly shared, ethical values and beliefs about conduct in pursuit of purpose that all may trust and rely upon, communities steadily disintegrate, and organizations progressively become instruments of tyranny […]. Ordinances, orders, and enforcement are simply different words for control, command and tyranny. The ultimate sanction of control is force. Force is the tool of tyranny […] Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, employ good people, and free them to do the same. All else is trivial. Dee Hock (*1929) US American founder and former CEO of the VISA credit card association USA and Visa International, founder of the non-profit organization The Chaordic Commons, Birth of the Chaordic Age, Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc., 1999

• (He) who wins by injustice may dominate the present day, but history will always judge him to be a shameful loser. ["Nelson Mandela of Asia"] (1925-2009) South Korean president (1998-2003), Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 2000

• When that Christian emperor, Constantine, had murdered his wife, son, nephew, and several other relatives, he raised his hands toward heaven, and exclaimed, "The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin." Here is an example of the pernicious and demoralizing effect of the Christian doctrines of atonement and forgiveness. Kersey Graves (1813-1883) US American skeptic, atheist, spiritualist, Nontheist Friend, reformist, writer, Bible of Bibles

• Pharao had the power but Moses had the authority.
  The Roman leaders had the power, but Jesus had the authority.
  The British had the power, but Gandhi had the authority.
  Pretoria had the power, but Nelson Mandela had the authority.
  Video interview with Rev. Jim Wallis (*1948) US American evangelical Christian writer, political activist, editor-in-chief Sojourners, Whom would you like to interview, and what would you ask?, presented by Big Think, 2:11 minutes duration, posted 4. February 2008

• Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad with power. R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) Indian novel author

• Power [force] is a facilitator. It provides opportunities to men with certain appetites but seldom changes personality in any fundamental way. Ronald F. Levant, US American professor of psychology, Harvard University, co-editor, Gary R. Brooks, co-editor, Men and Sex. New Psychological Perspectives, Wiley, 1st edition, October 1997

• Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998) US American politician, Acceptance Speech as the Republican Presidential candidate, San Francisco, July 1964

• The males of most cultures will ordinarily define themselves by external performance, self created ordeals, and ego affirming tasks – unless they are offered a very real inner world and larger outer world that is even more alive and challenging. […] Older cultures seemed to assume that unless the male is led on deliberate journeys of powerlessness, he will normally seek and abuse power. The only external power that you can trust is in men who have also found their real inner power. Power it seems is the key fascination in the male soul and in every male archetype. It does not go away by churchy preaching or cultural poverty. It just takes disguised and different forms and finally comes back to defeat most worthwhile projects or worse, keeps them from ever getting started. If the male does not experience his power and his possibilities, if he does not let others educate it and tame it, power needs/ego needs tend to control his whole agenda. It does not go away. Primal cultures understood this to an amazing degree, and they took steps to insure that it would not keep happening and subverting their community. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, Made not Born: Men and Power, presented by Malespirituality.org, July 2003

• There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion.  Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns. Ayn Rand [LoC 400] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter, Faith and Force. The Destroyers of the Modern World, lecture, Yale University, 17. February 1960, published as a pamphlet, Nathaniel Branden Institute, 1967, and later in Philosophy: Who Needs It

• Only force rules. Force is the first law. Adolf Hitler [Fallen to LoC 45] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party, „Führer und Reichskanzler“ of the Third Reich (1933-1945)