There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist
Dan BrownTags: wisdom power history ignorance
Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: that those statements are worth making, perhaps more worth making than certain others, that I am the sort of person entitled to make them and perhaps able to guarantee their truth, that you are the kind of person worth making them to, that something useful is accomplished by making them, and so on.
Terry EagletonTags: truth power facts value judgements
All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge which may then be distorted by particular interests and judgements, although this is certainly possible; it is also that without particular interests we would have no knowledge at all, because we would not see the point of bothering to get to know anything. Interests are constitutive of our knowledge, not merely prejudices which imperil it. The claim that knowledge should be 'value-free' is itself a value-judgement.
Terry EagletonTags: knowledge power facts value
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.
Rudolf RockerTags: power dogma violence destruction force laws straightjackets
When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God. One of the primary laws of human life is that you become like what you worship; what’s more, you reflect what you worship not only to the object itself but also outward to the world around. Those who worship money increasingly define themselves in terms of it and increasingly treat other people as creditors, debtors, partners, or customers rather than as human beings. Those who worship sex define themselves in terms of it (their preferences, their practices, their past histories) and increasingly treat other people as actual or potential sex objects. Those who worship power define themselves in terms of it and treat other people as either collaborators, competitors, or pawns. These and many other forms of idolatry combine in a thousand ways, all of them damaging to the image-bearing quality of the people concerned and of those whose lives they touch.
N.T. WrightTags: money power god sex worship idolatry idols image-of-god
It's called the Infinity Effect.
Edward M. WolfeTags: energy power infinity funny apocalypse gullibility effect disaster apocalyptic radio catastrophe mirror disasters catastrophes post-apocalyptic mirrors battery nuclear silly nuclear-bomb batteries in-the-end wolfe gullible apocalipse edward-wolfe b-o-b bug-out-bag carries-energy energy-company first-strike mushroom-cloud particle-wave power-company power-outage transistor transistor-radios transistors
When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything..." -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.
Sharon WeilTags: power pleasure donny-and-ursula-save-the-world donny-and-ursula belly-dancing sheerah unlock-your-pleasure unlock-your-power
What I find powerful is a person with
the confidence to be her own self.
Tags: power self-esteem confidence
Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge.
Israelmore AyivorTags: wisdom education knowledge power people ignorance liberation information liberated educated lack-of-knowledge ignorant-people information-is-liberation knowledge-is-power knowledge-is-the-key people-perish wisdom-is-liberation
Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.
Greg CoxTags: power soul science-fiction eugenics star-trek
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