Buddhism Quote by Amy Chua

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very…

— Amy Chua

People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually…

— Brad Warner

Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach…

— Frederick Lenz

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to…

— Tom Robbins

To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution…

— Leon Trotsky

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

— Sri Chinmoy

“One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of…

— Jane Sherron De Hart

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing…

— Thomas Jefferson

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

— Idries Shah

“Every conquest in our work, in our lives, adds to our strength, gives us new power, because it gives additional self-confidence. It stimulates us…

— Orison Swett Marden

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution…

— Rob Morrow