Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!
Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.
I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.
Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.
When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. ” – Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all. ” – Choo Co La Tah
Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!
The left understands the media. The left wields it, and the right sits on the sidelines and complains.
Henry Blodget says, "It is not clear what, if any, power and influence [Steven Lerner] currently wields. His main message - that Wall Street won the financial crisis, that inequality in this country is hitting record levels, and that there appears to be no other way to stop the trend - will almost certainly resonate. "
