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Power Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over…
- We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and…
- We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
- Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the…
- Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
- To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.…
- What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
- As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does…
- And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength…
- I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…
- And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name,…
- It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,…
- The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
- No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and…
- But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.…
- But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
- I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not…
- If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went…
- What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children,…
- A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
- The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment,…
- The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
More Power Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo