Sobre Power

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Power é uma série de televisão de drama policial americana criada e produzida por Courtney A. Kemp em colaboração com Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. Foi exibida na rede Starz de 7 de junho de 2014 a 9 de fevereiro de 2020. Após o lançamento, Power recebeu críticas positivas e é um dos programas mais bem avaliados da Starz e um dos programas mais assistidos da TV a cabo. Antes da estreia da quinta temporada, a Starz renovou o programa para uma sexta e última temporada, que estreou em 25 de agosto de 2019. Visão geral Power conta a história de James St. Patrick, um traficante de drogas inteligente, charmoso, porém implacável, que usa o pseudônimo de "Ghost". Ele deseja deixar o mundo do crime para perseguir interesses comerciais legítimos como dono de uma boate. St. Patrick visa equilibrar essas duas vidas, enquanto evita a captura pela polícia, tenta navegar seu casamento em ruínas e gerenciar alianças econômicas em mudança. O programa apresenta a família de James, que consiste em sua esposa Tasha, os gêmeos Tariq e Raina e o bebê Yasmine. Power também segue o parceiro criminoso e melhor amigo de James, Tommy Egan, o interesse amoroso e promotora criminal Angela Valdes, o amigo que se torna rival Kanan Stark, o protegido e rival Andre Coleman, e o colega de Angela, Cooper Saxe. O advogado de defesa Joe Proctor, o promotor distrital John Mak e o político Rashad Tate também aparecem nas temporadas posteriores do programa.

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“Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.”
— Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (2018), , p. 102
“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.”
— Demosthenes, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455
“Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never used it except on the side of mercy.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll, (1883), Unity: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion, Volume 11, Number 3, The Exchange Table, True Greatness Exemplified in Abraham Lincoln, by Robert G. Ingersoll (excerpt), Quote Page 55, Column 1 and 2, Chicago, Illinois. (Google Books Full View)
“No matter what kind of promises a man who’s looking for power makes, he’s not going to turn out to be any different from the one he replaces.”
— Mike Resnick, Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future (1986), chapter 3
“Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. … If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.”
— Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: 1948), p. 16
“When I resist, therefore, when I as a Democrat resist the concentration of power, I am resisting the processes of death, because the concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human initiative, and, therefore of human energy.”
— Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, speech, New York City, September 4, 1912. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link, vol. 25, p. 100 (1978). This speech was delivered to the Woodrow Wilson Workingmen's League "dollar dinner", at the Yorkville Casino.

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