#pow

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. ↗

— Cornel West

#obsessed #pleasure #power #property #selling

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference. ↗

— Kanye West

#changed #difference #going #his #jordan

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#needed #power #times

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#always #choose #climb #continue #first

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#back #deeply #end #exhausted #heroes

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#having #interest #me #power #things

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#admiration #american #canadian #counseling #encouraging-and-empowering-girls

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#government #power #without

But then again, that's what the Book of Job was about to her, a cautionary tale about wanting there to be a God, wanting there to be someone who could enact what a God could enact, or who could sanction what the Devil would do. You want this, people? You want these kinds of powers? No, you don't, and here's why, and here's why it's sheer vanity to want them in any other entity. Look what sort of violence would rain down. Poor Job, sure, poor Job with his hives and his financial losses — though who needs three thousand camels? — and too bad about the kids, forgive me, they were delicious, so sweet and so cold, sure, too bad, but it's God who's the miserable bastard here. Look what he got himself up to! No good could come of that type of power; that's what the writer of the Book of Job was saying, and she knew the writer was right. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#god #power #forgiveness

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#book #brink #composed #conceived #constructed