#pow

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#fantasies #massive #never #never underestimate #out

Ideas are more powerful than people. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#more #people #powerful #than

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#aspect #central #control #culture #decided

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#born #diligence #effort #express #few

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#i #interested #like #looks #making

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#both #conscience #effective #engages #meek

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#linked #money #power

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#power #beauty