#power

The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. There is no need to choose between the fetishism of spontaneity and the organization control; between the "come one, come all" of activist networks and the discipline of hierarchy; between acting desperately now and waiting desperately for later; between bracketing that which is to be lived and experimented in the name of paradise that seems more and more like a hell the longer it is put off and flogging the dead horse of how planting carrots is enough to leave this nightmare. ↗

— The Invisible Committee

#politics #the-power-of-choice #experience

My grandfather created a fortune that allowed him to live in luxury. He also went on to build the first industrial building in an area of San Paulo that eventually became one of the largest wholesale neighborhoods in the world. When my grandfather passed away, he left millions of dollars to my family as an inheritance. That inheritance, however, would have been worthless if he had not also given us his legacy of personal responsibility and work ethic. My grandfather refused to be defined by others, therefore setting not only the value of his product, but also of himself and his family. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#rabbi-celso #self-empowerment #family

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. Become open to new information that can refine, improve, and enhance your way of thinking. This will empower your way of living. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#ideas #learn #progress #thinking #experience

The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life-experience #power-of-choice #experience

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#gentleness #love #material-things #money #power

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self. ↗

— Alison Goodman

#power #love

Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important - it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not - but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#government #home #personal #power #privacy

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#gods #love #power #wisdom #love

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#love

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love ↗

— Johnny Cash

#love