#power

There is energy and power in a crisis. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#energy #power

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted. ↗

— John Cusack

#intellectual #investigated #lot #may #people

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#environment #exists #form #god #high

Ideas are more powerful than people. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#more #people #powerful #than

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#aspect #central #control #culture #decided

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#born #diligence #effort #express #few

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#i #interested #like #looks #making

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the “tribe” will desert us to die a sad, lonely death. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence #self-help

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#linked #money #power

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down