Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Language is legislation speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification and that all classifications are oppressive.
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories our pride our selfishness our malice our passions which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness looking instead for authority validation and approval from others we give our personal power away.
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth and then we are angry at being undervalued.
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
If those in charge of our society - politicians corporate executives and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress because once you are truly educated you will not ask for power. You will take it.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Personality has power to uplift power to depress power to curse and power to bless.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.
This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration which was a positive thing and they had some issues that they wanted to press but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.
Generally I'm a pretty positive but like any other working person if the jobs aren't coming in I do get depressed.
Facing the press is not easy but because you have to go you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do find the joy in it and express yourself through your passion.
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.