How shall I be able to rule over others that have not full power and command of myself?
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness looking instead for authority validation and approval from others we give our personal power away.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us.
To free us from the expectations of others to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great singular power of self-respect.
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Next to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.
Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015 even if the mothers are positive.
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Christians were instructed to serve others and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion and distorts both.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Conservative n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed and two others I'm working on.
Written poetry is worth reading once and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work I'll leave that for others to decide.
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.