Ezra Furman Quotes

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

The vices of kings cannot remain hidden, for the splendor of their lofty station permits naught to be concealed.

There is no safety where there is no strength.

The higher a monkey climb, the more he expose.

Power is precarious.

We are defined by how we use our power.

Weakness cannot cooperate with anything. Only strength can cooperate.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

Power is as power does.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter