#pow

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. ↗

— Black Elk

#clouds #come #drought #earth #gave

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#acting #ago #another #because #equals

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#going #hopes #influence #know #never

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#constitution #exclusively #force #gives #only

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#dumb-luck #higher-power #life #death

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#faith #great #great things #ideas #industrial

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#around #because #book #case #could

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#every #interest #military #nuclear #nuclear power

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#being #dangerous #force #iran #military