#pow

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#child #day #feel #may #one day

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." (Claiming an Education, 1977) ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#empowerment #feminism #independent-thought #responsibility #self-determination

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#balance #balance of power #believe #centuries #century

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#discipline #either #else #natural #others

I think that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a very special relationship and I think in very many ways to them it's a very satisfying relationship. I think that it's a mutual respect with a goal of power to achieve, maintain power. And I think that they have been good partners in that. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#been #bill #clinton #goal #good

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#always #anyone #believed #clinton #everything

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power. ↗

— John Fogerty

#doing #eddy #good #guitar #had

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#country #government #no reason #powers #problems

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. ↗

— Garrett Fort

#evil #god #great #knows #lunatic

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#calmly #develops #down #either #feels