#power

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. ↗

— Anita Hill

#against #each #given #other #our

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it. ↗

— Anita Hill

#certain #fact #live #maintain #matter

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#beliefs #better #better way #cannot #commercially

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#defeat #fear #know #may #possessed

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#appear #desires #enough #human powers #possess

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? ↗

— James Hillman

#control #generally #implication #muscles #negative

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#am #cute #difference #dumb #i

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#language #power-of-words #words #men

I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its male smell, allowing herself the luxury of letting the bars all the way down for once, enjoying for just this moment the eternal degradation of being a woman. "I cant take it much longer," she whimpered, tasting it, the eternally caught and held hard in the grasp of some man, the forever humiliated heavy weight it was impossible to squirm out from under, the forever helpless except for the mercy of him who always takes what he wants without any, and that all women learn instinctively not to expect [...] That was all they wanted. That was all any of them wanted. You give them the greatest thing you possess, the most intimate secret, and they --- just take it. Well, let them have it. Let them all have some of it. Let them root and rut and rowel, as if it was no more important than that why were they all so anxious to keep it away from each other? ↗

— James Jones

#gender-politics #men #misanthropy #monogamy #power

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#power #women #women