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A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
You wonder at power yoked to service. You wonder because you have come into power young and are learning that power comes through the acceptance of a bond. But if to have power is to be bound, then what is power?
If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.
When you observe rather than react, you reclaim your power.
The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.
The electricity devours my soul, fractures it open, and leaves it vulnerable and exposed.
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Power is something that is out of term.
An unSpiritual person is: A Human Current of Energy in an Ocean of Air
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
When power is scarce, a little of it is tempting.
The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and feelings of hopelessness that the dependent person dare not express for fear of alienating the necessary person even more.
Positive Power can inspire; Negative Power can perspire. Which power are you on?-RVM
When the mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it.
The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.
absolute power is corrupting
True power is given to the vulnerable.
In the presence of an overwhelming sincerity on the part of the disinherited, the dominant themselves are caught with no defense [ ... ] They are thrown back upon themselves for their rating.
Power is like a knife. It can be used to cut bread to share with your neighbor or stab you in the back.
Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances ... That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.
Oppression often turns out to be the expectations we impose on ourselves and the expectations we interpret those around us as having.
The powerful and the powerless.
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
The root of oppression is the loss of memory.
Helplessness is a mighty power.
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
taking unfair advantage of folks of good will and had become
A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.
Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.
I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery."
"You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks," Gansey mused as he began to walk again.
Blue blinked. "What?"
Over his shoulder, Gansey said, "Next to the wall plug.
Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Power corrupts on an equal-opportunity basis.
The powerlessness of people with pure intentions, in the long run, can sometimes be more powerful than power in the hands of those blinded or depraved by evil tempers.
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary
Power is a dangerous game
In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it is delivered in the manner that power recognizes as powerful.
Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
We need to tackle energy poverty.
Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained.
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor and rich people together in mutual dependence and struggle. Eviction was such a process.
To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
A silent, unavoidable revolution is taking place in society, a revolution THAT CARES AS LITTLE ABOUT THE HUMAN LIVES IT DESTROYS as an earthquake cares about the houses it ravages. Classes and RACES THAT ARE TOO WEAK to dominate the new conditions of existence WILL BE DEFEATED.
To be a complete victim may be another source of power.
The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
With great power comes great dissipation.
appliancization.
Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.
The only people who can really drain your power effectively are people you are very close to, you are open to, you love, or people you are afraid of, you fear.
liberating when your strongest
When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.
When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power.
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.
Excitation of the instinct of appropriation at the sight of the weak: it is to be remembered, however, that " strong " and " weak " are relative conceptions.
The power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
When we feel unworthy, we feel powerless. When we feel powerless, we shrink. When we shrink, we attract a match to that energy.
The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness
Empowerment is the intentional absence of negativity.
The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
I was becoming too dependent on female attention, allowing it to be my sole reason for leaving the house besides food. In the process of dehumanizing the opposite sex, I had also been dehumanizing myself.
To empower people in an unaligned organization can be counterproductive.
Power is the recognition of necessity.
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes
a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living system. Because the unexpected
adversity
is guaranteed, this discipline is about routinely making lemons into lemon meringue pie.
Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
The ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.
Belittling leaders who are limiting repel people easily. They can't tap into the unlimited potential of their people. They can't take them to the next level...
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.
Power given up is power given away.
When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
When you have power and use it for destructive purpose: you don't deserve it.
If you have power, you have to empower.
P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
There is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with.
If you don't consume power, it consumes you.