#owe

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. ↗

— Dogen

#falls #flower #grows #love #though

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#egalitarian #had #islam #power #principle

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#educate #illuminate #inspire #motivate #power

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#idea #long #men #oppose #powerless

I owe it to my children to secure their future. ↗

— Amber Frey

#future #i #owe #secure #their

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#germany #hitler #i #power #student

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#asia #cause #deficiency #desired #difficulties

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #come #disagree #find #get

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#after #allowed #buy #feel #i

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#among #any #ascendancy #composition #gain