Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.
An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.
Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
The Vision: [wields Mjolnir] Balance is amazing! Thor: The key is that it's not too heavy. Gives the swing more power.
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworth...
From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
Britain isn't a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn't know when it's dead - Samson from No Boundaries.
As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
you need to listen to the silence in order to hear the messages from universe..because beyond the silence there's more sounds connecting you with universal powers..
As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.
Positive Power can inspire; Negative Power can perspire. Which power are you on?-RVM
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.
The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.
