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

Power, Society, People, Control

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

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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Power, Mankind, Opinion

"All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Power, Problems, Nation, Might, God

"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."

George Eliot, British Author

Power, Generalization, Truth, Superiority

"Confusion is a weapon that is used by others to gain a temporary objective or advantage."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Power, Confusion, Weapon, Advantage, Strategy

"Utilizing the Power of Your Heart is the most significant choice you will make in life."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Power, Heart, Choice, Life

"Either I would change lives or end them. The second option is always available."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Power, Change, Life, End

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

Peter L. Berger, Austrian Sociologist

Power, Possibility, Economy, State

"In my experience, influence is power."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Power, Influence, Experience, Control

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Power, Gods

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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

Power, Society, People, Control

"The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten."

Soul, Body, Choice, Circumstances

"Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind."

Beauty, Depression

"It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it."

Imagination, First

"As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity."

Soul, Body, Circumstances, Myth

"Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here."

Happiness, Being, Pursuit, Right

"You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy."

War, Blame, Fault, Theory

"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."

Depression,

"We forget that the soul has its own ancestors."

Soul, Forget

"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."

Self-Awareness, Class, Economics, Gender, Race