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Quote Left The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. Quote Right
Quote Left If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. Quote Right
Quote Left Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honied blossoms blow, Unseen thy little branches greet; ...No roving foot shall crush thee here, ...No busy hand provoke a tear. By Nature's self in white arrayed, She bade thee shun the vulgar eye, And planted here the gaurdian shade, And sent soft waters murmuring by; ...Thus quietly thy summer goes, ...Thy days declinging to repose. Smit with those charms, that must decay, I grieve to see your future doom; They died--nor were those flowers more gay, The flowers that did in Eden bloom; ...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power ...Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evenign dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; ...The space between, is but an hour, ...The frail duration of a flower. Quote Right
Quote Left Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us Quote Right
Quote Left Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractical. It has been too little tried by individuals, much less by nations. It will not readily or easily serve those who are greedy for power. It cannot be effectively used for bad ends. It could not be used as the basis of an empire. It does not afford opportunities for profit. It involves danger to practitioners. It requires sacrifice. And yet it seems to me that it is practical, for it offers the only escape from the logic of retribution. It is the only way by which we can cease to look to war for peace. ... Peaceableness is not passive. It is the ability to act to resolve conflict without violence. If it is not a practical and practicable method, it is nothing. As a practicable method, it reduces helplessness in the face of conflict. In the face of conflict, the peaceable person may find several solutions, the violent person only one. Quote Right
Quote Left Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. Quote Right
Quote Left The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside. Quote Right
Quote Left The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own. Quote Right
Quote Left Apathy isn’t it. We can do something. So flower power didn’t work. So what. We start again. Quote Right
Quote Left O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.) Quote Right
Quote Left All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty. Quote Right
Quote Left O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.
(O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)
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Quote Left The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of attitude toward our essential ignorance, a change in our bearing in the face of mystery. The principle of ecology, if we will take it to heart, should keep us aware that our lives depend on other lives and upon processes and energies in an interlocking system that, though we can destroy it, we can neither fully understand nor fully control. And our great dangerousness is that, locked in our selfish and myopic economies, we have been willing to change or destroy far beyond our power to understand. Quote Right
Quote Left I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed. Quote Right
Quote Left The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Quote Right
Quote Left Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Quote Right
Quote Left Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Quote Right
Quote Left I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content. Quote Right
Quote Left Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant. Quote Right
Quote Left In the fall, when you see geese heading south for the winter fly along in v formation, one might consider what science has discovered as to why geese fly this way. Each bird flaps its wings creating uplift for the bird immediately following. A flock has a greater flying range in formation than a single bird would have on its own. When a goose falls out of formation, it feels the drag and resistance of trying to fly alone and quickly rejoins the formation. The goose takes advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front. The geese in formation honk from behind to encourage those flying up front to keep their speed. When a goose gets sick or wounded and falls out of formation, two other geese will fall out of formation with that goose to follow it down to lend help and protection. They stay with that fallen goose until it is able to fly or it dies. Only then do they launch out on their own or with another formation to catch up with their flock. People, who share a common direction and sense of community, can reach a goal more quickly and easily because they are traveling on the thrust of one another. It is harder to do something alone than together. It is beneficial to take turns doing demanding work. By sharing leadership and depending upon others in a group, there is a chance to lead and an opportunity to rest. Quote Right
Quote Left O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. Quote Right
Quote Left Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children. Quote Right
Quote Left Oh, what a might is this whose single frown Doth shake the world as it would shake it down?... Quote Right
Quote Left For example, there is a species of butterfly, a night-moth, in which the females are much less common than the males. The moths breed exactly like all animals, the male fertilizes the female and the female lays the eggs. Now, if you take a female night moth----many naturalists have tried this experiment---the male moths will visit this female at night and they will come from hours away. From hours away! Just think! From a distance of several miles all these males sense the only female in the region. One looks for an explanation for this phenomenon but it is not easy. You must assume that they have a sense of smell of some sort like a hunting dog that can pick up and follow a semmingly imperceptible scent. Do you see? Nature abounds with such inexplicable things. But my argument is: if the female moths were as abundant as the males, the latter would not have such a highly developed sense of smell. They've acquired it only because they had to train themseleves to to have it. If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all. And that also answers your question. Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself. Quote Right
Quote Left Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. Quote Right
Quote Left All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by... Quote Right
Quote Left ... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman... Quote Right
Quote Left Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. Quote Right
Quote Left Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning. Quote Right
Quote Left A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. Quote Right
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Member Quotes About Power

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Quote Left There is no greater true happiness than compassion, There is no arrogance greater than displaying power over someone weaker than oneself. By Jagdish Bajantri Quote Right
Quote Left “What is strength ? Strength is when a river cuts through a rock, not because of its flowing power, but because of its persistance.” ©GhairoDanielsQuotes Quote Right
Quote Left “Inner Focus is like a revolution for most people. The ego will avoid inner focus at all costs. Yet the holy path inward, to Heart Centre, brings authentic power.” ©GhairoDanielsQuotes Quote Right
Quote Left “The more you dive into your imagination, the greater your creativity will become & vice versa. The two is the basis of material life. The imaginal realm is one of the most important realms for human evolution & human expansion. Your imagination is your magic. It is the power within us that can change the world. ” ©GhairoDanielsQuotes Quote Right
Quote Left If it is not thine to give, then it is not thine to take. If the power you seek is not used for good, then the power need not be given. If life is not what you need and death is not the answer, then go forth and not be. Quote Right
Quote Left For a poem to have sharing power, it must first tingle a reader's curiosity, greet on a soul level, and then unite somewhere-somehow with unity spirit. Quote Right
Quote Left Education should empower you to make choices, not just take tests. Real learning shapes your future, it doesn't just fill a workbook. Quote Right
Quote Left It would be a far better and fairer world, if those who held the power, weren't a bunch of self indulgent arseholes. Quote Right
Quote Left Simply wielding power is not leadership. Quote Right
Quote Left Regulation is a necessity of governing while deregulation is a necessity of power. Quote Right
Quote Left Violence is to power what crack is to cocaine. Quote Right
Quote Left “ Don’t compare your pain to anybody else’s Use your story to empower you and gain…” ©ghairodanielsquotes Quote Right
Quote Left The rich and powerful create their own reality, then shove that reality down the throats of others. Quote Right
Quote Left The power of politics is one thing, but the power of the people is something else. Quote Right
Quote Left "Steampunk is a brass-geared rebellion of imagination, where steam-powered dreams conquer the impossible. It's not just cogs and clockwork, but a conscious map exploring the tensions between progress and ethics, individuality and authority, humanity and nature—all through the lens of a reimagined past." -Daniel Henry Rodgers Quote Right
Quote Left "I do not with for women to overpower men-- I wish for them to recognize the power within themselves." Quote Right
Quote Left " Corporations have been enthroned...An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people...until wealth is aggregated in a few hands...and the republic is destroyed ". *Written by a man 160 yrs. ago, prophetic, wouldn't you say... Abraham Lincoln Quote Right
Quote Left The power is in your hands. So set it off.. Quote Right
Quote Left "Make it a point to tell your children you love them, so when you send them off into the world they will be powered by the greatest fuel there is, LOVE!" Quote Right
Quote Left " Who then doth have a Ray Shining Upon Him through the Sun within his rational part, and these Rays in all are few, on them the Demons do not act; for not one of the Demons or "Gods" has any power against one Ray Of God" - Corpus Hermeticum, HERMES Quote Right
Quote Left Anxiety grows in the shadows of uncertainty, feeding on the unknown. But each time we breathe deeply into the present moment, we reclaim power from the future that hasn't yet arrived! Quote Right
Quote Left America is a land of power. The question is do you know how to wield it? Quote Right
Quote Left "Your silence is a powerful statement. Use it wisely." Quote Right
Quote Left The peasant is more closer to God than the rich and the powerful. Quote Right
Quote Left Yep, dangle shinning objects to get attention...to hypnotize into followers. Human dog whistles are, the promise of wealth, power, with no spiritual consequences. Quote Right
Quote Left Democracy is a fallacy, all politicians lie, it's only power they seek. Quote Right
Quote Left Examples of extraordinary courage can boost our confidence. Some men were tested for their faith, or integrity and faced horrible death at the hands of tyrants. Whoever fights for a good cause can be threatened with hostility, or even death; on the contrary, the power is always given to a dumb puppet who is being manipulated by clever men. Quote Right
Quote Left Qualities of the God which we fail to imbibe: He remains within his boundaries; calm - absorbing-kind - forgiving.He always walks along, yet gives us all the space to learn n expand. Every time we turn around shattered, he is always there - smiling n embracing.He has magical power to listen. He listens to us all with equal patience. He sees us making mistakes yet turns them into lessons n levitates us. He rules the world thru his quite bright aura.His meditative state-heis always in his brains. Quote Right
Quote Left If writers think that writing is just to pleasantly entertain, then they are limiting their own force, and the God-given power of the Pen to kindle and ignite truth. Quote Right
Quote Left In a Forest, Nature rules. In a Garden, Humans are given the Power of Nature to rule temporarily, to learn ornamentalism. Quote Right
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