Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
Isaiah BerlinTags: paradox liberty equality power weakness rights
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.
Carter G. WoodsonTags: power history privilege carter-g-woodson
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
George DeaconTags: humor power god religion corruption
What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: wisdom power faint-heartedness restraint
Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applying themselves to the sciences and other disciplines, it seems to me that those of us who can should use this long-craved freedom to study and to let men see how greatly they wronged us when depriving us of its honor and advantages. And if any woman becomes so proficient as to be able to write down her thoughts, let her do so and not despise the honor, but rather flaunt it instead of fine clothes, necklaces, and rings. For these may be considered ours only by use, whereas the honor of being educated is ours entirely.
Louise LabéTags: education power feminism learn troubador
Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.
Tags: power patience waiting timing
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you.
Posthumus
Tags: power pardon shakespeare-s-wit
It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant
(Isabella)
Tags: power shakespeare-s-wit
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Tags: power religion church protestant creed greek jewish profit enslave human-invention monopolize roman turkish
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo FreireTags: power inequality neutrality powerlessness radicalism
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