#pow

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

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable