#power

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

#connects #does #equivalent #knowledge #link

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#also #being #boss #empowering #great

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#egalitarian #had #islam #power #principle

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#educate #illuminate #inspire #motivate #power

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#idea #long #men #oppose #powerless

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#germany #hitler #i #power #student

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#asia #cause #deficiency #desired #difficulties

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#immensity #limited #manage #media #navigation

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. ↗

— John Gray

#empowered #feel #men #motivated #needed

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ↗

— Robert Hall

#fixing #habits #intellectual #lies #most