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Here’s what YOU said about POWER
POWER
• Control over others.
• Power is having influence over people, whether that be through money, fear, or religion, its getting people to do what you want.
• The capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.
• Power can be defined as the amount of influence a person (or leader) has over others. This can be used to either do something good or make the population do something for the benefit of the leader.
3 Elements of Power
1.Force
2 Influence
2.Influence
3.Authority
FORCE
• A force is a push or pull upon an object resulting from the object's interaction with another object. Whenever there is an interaction between two objects, there is a force upon each of the objects. When the interaction ceases, the two objects no longer experience the force. • Forces only exist as a result of an interaction.
only exist as a result of an interaction
• FORCE‐ability to shape another’s behavior in predictable ways by physical restraint or threats THIS IS THE LEAST STABLE WAY TO CONTROL OR RULE PEOPLE
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Police
Military
Prison
Execution
INFLUENCE
• INFLUENCE: ability to shape another’s behavior in predetermined ways by using enticements or rewards
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Awards
Propaganda
Positions
Votes
Media
Titles
Recognition
• Power is an intangible force that can be wielded to control or impact almost anything (objects, people, behavior, actions, emotions, etc.).
• Power is having control over everything.
• Power is a force, whether given or taken, that influences the decisions, thoughts or actions of others.
• Power is the ability to influence others and also be able to have a way to exert your control over them.
• Power is the exertion of dominance over the weak.
AUTHORITY
• AUTHORITY: ability to shape another’ s behavior by asking or requesting
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Requests
Habit
Respect
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POWER QUOTATION ASSIGNMENT
• You will copy down the 15 quotations and who they are attributed to on your quotations assignment chart.
• You will then grab a netbook and write down information on the author of each quote
information on the author of each quote
– Include birth‐death date & where he/she is from
– Something interesting about him/her (might be his/her occupation or historical event he/she is associated with)
– It’s OK to work with a partner
– For this assignment wikipedia is OK
• Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
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• The world itself is the will to power ‐ and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to
you yourself are the will to power ‐ and nothing else!
• To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that'ss real are doing and that
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power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ayn Rand
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• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
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• Power has only one duty ‐ to secure the social welfare of the People
the People.
Benjamin Disraeli
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• Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will
public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
• Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him
only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Andrew Jackson
Denis Diderot
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• People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining
largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
• Politics is not about power.
Paul Wellstone
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Don DeLillo
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• The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
power
• Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Walter Annenberg
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• Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
• The way to have power is to take it.
William Pitt
William Pitt
Boss Tweed
Boss Tweed
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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
C Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
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