“Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.”
— James Hillman
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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
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“The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.”
— Paul Wellstone
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“One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.”
— Jane Smiley
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“Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!”
— Greg Anderson
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“The only power you have is the word no.”
— Frances McDormand
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“People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.”
— Don DeLillo
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“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”
— Stendhal
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“The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.”
— Henry Hazlitt
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“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
— Virginia Woolf
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“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”
— Walter Scott
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