Wielding Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct… — John Berger
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice… — Pope Francis
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. — Pierre Bourdieu
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a… — Julia Serano
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power. — Indira Gandhi
Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power… — Bertha Knight Landes
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its… — Alice Bailey
Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding… — Margaret Thatcher
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses… — Donald Kagan
Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to be angry about… — Josei Toda
The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer. — John Mott
I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose.… — Gillian Flynn
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and… — Paul Schrader
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. — Robert Metcalfe
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but… — Parker J. Palmer
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression — Mohammad Khatami
Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of… — Steven Pressfield
The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not… — Sloane Crosley

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