Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: power money preference Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: politics power responsibility policy circumstances Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: politics power power winning control victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: politics power power winning control victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: power wisdom freedom writing law cowardice morality laws revolution honor order property Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves — for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings. —Elizabeth Dodson Gray More about this quote Tags: power danger nature environmentalism mother feminine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. —Stewart I. Udall More about this quote Tags: fear power greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A civilization which tends to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a fortunate few, and to make of others mere human machines, must inevitably evolve anarchy and bring destruction. —Henry George More about this quote Tags: power destruction luck wealth civilization machines anarchy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is supposed to be part of the American tradition that if we want to step out of line, we step out of line. Democracy isn't falling in line behind the president. Democracy is for people to think independently, be skeptical of government, look around and try to find out what's going on. And if they find out that government is deceiving them, to speak out as loudly as they can. —Howard Zinn More about this quote Tags: politics power democracy government protest America skepticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: history power change authority fighting obedience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them. —Philippa Carr More about this quote Tags: war power poverty suffering consequences control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: love power change songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. —Émile de Girardin More about this quote Tags: power words change defeat victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will. —Greg McKeown More about this quote Tags: life power control priorities Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand. —Emo Philips More about this quote Tags: power supernatural skepticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email