What is Power?

• Power is about strength, which comes in various shapes and different contexts of our lives.
• It is misleading to treat power as a thing, as thought it were an internal packet of energy.
• Power is not an entity, but a way of interacting.
• Power is something that happens between people, something going on, an interaction, a way of relating.
• Power has both personal and social dimensions.

Lord Acton: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Shall we succumb to such a narrow view of power? Power is destructive and creative, demonic and holy. The word "virtue" means, simply, "power."

Lord Acton's complement: "Power tends to heal, and absolute power heals absolutely."