That power – whether exercised or simply imagined – can be addictive.
"The danger is not really from corrupt corporations; it springs from the corruption itself, whether exercised for or against corporations," Roosevelt said.
They evoke a society with no moral code, in which power — whether exercised by lone strongmen, gangland posses, uniformed officers, or unseen voices blaring propaganda in public places — reigns unchecked, and where, as a hardened criminal declares, "the shameless are afraid of the desperate".
Writes Merrill Peterson (1965: 518), "Democracy [for Jefferson] was less a form of government than a principle opposed to government, a code of restraints on sovereignty whether exercised by the few or the many".
Rather, the danger is tyranny itself, whether exercised by powerful individuals or corporations unchecked by government regulation or exercised by a democratic majority threatened by the very notion of individual rights.
Flies on 20% yeast exhibit a similar high climbing speed whether exercised or not, while flies on 2.5% yeast actually become slower climbers when exercised (Fig. 4F).
Flies kept on 20% yeast, twice the normal amount in our standard diet, displayed an unusually high mobility, whether exercised or unexercised (Fig. 4A), implying that nutritional components found in yeast (principally protein and lipid) may be limiting for climbing ability in adult flies.
In contrast to cardiac autophagy, dFatp mutants have low autophagy in adipose tissue whether exercised or not.
This includes all forms of violence, irrespective of whether exercised as so-called street violence or as IPV.
