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"Power is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere"
Michel Foucault
"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting"
Michel Foucault
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The world tells us to seek success, power, and money; God tells us to seek humility, service, and love."
Pope Francis
"For a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful"
Primo Levi
"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless"
Salman Rushdie
"Covenants without the sword are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all"
Thomas Hobbes
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined"
Toni Morrison
"History is written by the victors"
Walter Benjamin
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins"
Soren Kierkegaar
"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that"
Swami Vivekananda