"The atmosphere does not respond to gestures. It is unmoved by promises, unimpressed by words. It has no factions that can be set against each other, no voters who can be fobbed off and distracted." George Monbiot. https://www.monbiot.com/2021/08/24/dead-line/
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship." George Orwell (brainy quote)
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." Alice Walker https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/
"The greatest power is not money power, but political power." Walter Annenberg. (brainy quote)
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi (brainy quote)
“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (brainy quote)
“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."
― Toni Morrison
The greatest power is that interrogation between my broken self and my loving self to weed out actions that simply hurt others in order for me to justify my own hurt, then to move forward to do what the world needs of me as a sentient being. It transcends identity and politics. It's the power to take in the whole argument and reflect on how I can offer my help, knowing no matter how uncomfortable the moment ― I cannot control the day.
If we give the world time to express all its thoughts, we could find the way to peace ― Janet Vickers
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