"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future." ― Eric Hoffer Topic(s): Power Tags: predict More From Eric Hoffer "I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us." "Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith." "It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living." More In Power "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."― Alice Walker "It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."― Herbert Hoover "There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man’s reasoning powers."― Bernard Baruch