#han

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together. ↗

— Gackt

#japanese-singer #change

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i

Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard. ↗

— John Powell

#because #certainly #children #going #hands

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. ↗

— John Powell

#blacks #concentrated #likely #live #more

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#fear #social-transformation #change

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#blood #body #bread #change #create

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women. ↗

— Susan Powter

#damaging #earth #eliminates #every #half

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change ↗

— Frank Herbert

#systems #change

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#changes #i #i have learned #i think #just

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#any #authority #baptize #christian #churches