#pow

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#politics #power #time #violence #life

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#jimi-hendrix #love #mahatma-gandhi #peace #philosophy

I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again. ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#lonely #love #power #love

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know. ↗

— E.L. James

#ana-steele #anastasia-grey #anastasia-steele #conflict #fifty-shades-freed

Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose. ↗

— Dalma Heyn

#love #power #relationships #social-sciences #love

He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#power #relationship #vulnerable #love

I loved him, more than anything else in the world and that when he was away it was hard to breath and that I couldn't go through a single second without thinking about him. ↗

— Heather James

#elements-of-power #fire #jasmine #love #love

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#authority #peace #power #love

The Legend of the Firefish,first in the Trophy Chase Trilogy by George Bryan Polivka, is a winner....filled with action,adventure, danger, intrigue,surprise,suspense....The characters Polivka created are fresh and interesting....A must read for fantasy lovers, and a highly recommended drating for others who want a good story. Rebecca LuElla Miller A Christian Worldview of Fiction Website ↗

— George Bryan Polivka

#love #power #suspense #inspirational

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#hate-to-love #power-of-love #love