6 Gerry Spence Quotes on Power

Gerry Spence quotes on power

1. We are defined by how we use our power.

7. The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

10. When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

11. Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.

13. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

31. The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.