#power

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#know #people #power #real #real power

The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#been #collective #future #hands #oregon

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been. ↗

— William Kunstler

#blanket #came #chambers #darkness #federal

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#awful #basketball #beautiful #became #country

I shall do everything it becomes me to do. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#capacity #empathize #enables #envision #experiences

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

#formidable #more #power #than #truth

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#embargo #imposed #maintained #nicaragua #power

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower. ↗

— Aly Khan

#clearly #conflict #important #korean #korean war