on the power of Tao

It is not so much 'power' that corrupts  then the mith of 'power'. It is noted above that 'power', like 'energy', 'tension', and the rest of the quasi-physical metaphors are to be distrusted and, among them, 'power' is one of the most dangerous. He who covets a mythical abstraction must always be insatiable! As teachers we should not promote that myth.

from "Time is out of joint", 1978