Where Power fails to paralyze with constraints, it paralyses by suggestion, by forcing everyone to use crutches of which it is the sole owner and purveyor.
Raoul Vaneigem
Related We are the books we read and the things we love. CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you. MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become. EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru... SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool. L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great. EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm! COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ... OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they... PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself. MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what. JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse t... J.Z. COLBY Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD In a world of words, anything is possible... LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN Maxim 1: Pillage, then burn. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc... HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ... CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life: 1. Never put off to tomorrow wha... THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,... SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi... LIBBA BRAY Never underestimate the power of giving a book! CARMELA DUTRA Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a... THOMAS FULLER Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word. CRAIG GROESCHEL Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future. CHERISE WOLAS Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the cr... JOE TORRE Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN When this initiative fails, the legislature which is controlled by liberals will revoke it. CLIFF NELLIS Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. HOWARD TAYLER Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I... RAE CARSON Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ... LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being. LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given, So stop waiting around for your dues. Use it wisely and y... MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster. STIRLING MOSS I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else ins... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Mind power; The mind has the sole power & authority to bring the body under subjection & obedience b... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd WILLIAM PENN People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot... C. ROBERT CARGILL Everyone is standing by to see which direction it goes. DEAN PAGANI Time is a power of its own, and it may be the only power by which some miracles come to pass. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l... RICHARD BRANSON The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adhe... ADOLF HITLER Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa... TOMMY DONBAVAND Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind TAURUS MORGAN Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less. -The Seventy... HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 16: Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth. -The Seventy M... HOWARD TAYLER First rule of thievery,' Eli said, grinning, 'only run if you're not coming back.' (...) 'First rule... RACHEL AARON Things it helps me to remember When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still. Baggy jumpers don�... AIDAN CHAMBERS ...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them ... RACHEL JOYCE Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom whi... CONFUCIUS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT It is but a poor establishment where there are not many
superfluous things which the owner knows no... UNKNOWN It is better to win by the power of love than by the power of might. DEBASISH MRIDHA Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It... ROBIN S. SHARMA because it lures women in with a marketing scheme that purports feminism, when in actuality the sole... THE BRAVERY it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation whic... NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Take care of your words and the words will take care of you. AMIT RAY Everyone has the power to make someone else happy, some do it by entering the room while others do i... RANA MAGDY Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ... SHELLEY LUBBEN Opportunities don’t make U turns. JAMES J-PIERRE Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me. TIGER WOODS One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre... BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule. NUNO ROQUE We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck. PARUL WADHWA It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be be... FRIEDRICH LIST You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them... TED SHACKELFORD I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a... EDWARD GIBBON I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by... EDWARD GIBBON Love is holy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. HOWARD TAYLER It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce. VOLTAIRE Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges! TAE YUN KIM Maxim 28: If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for ... HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. HOWARD TAYLER I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies. OMEGA MAVERICK Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ... ÉMILE ZOLA Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. BILL MEYER Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule ... HOWARD TAYLER
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