#pow

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#agree #chastity #filth #i #old

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. ↗

— Og Mandino

#being overwhelmed #character #emergencies #failure #highway

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment. ↗

— Fred Upton

#countless #create #double-digit #endures #jobs

The power of visibility can never be underestimated. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#power #underestimated #visibility

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#ends #fear #hate #how #lies

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#impose #institutions #moral #people #powerful

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#feel #give #people #power #powerless

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered. ↗

— Julie Christie

#did #empowered #films #heaven #i

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide