Joan Kirner famous quotes

There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
-- Joan Kirner

#Inspiring #Empowering #Decision

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.
-- Joan Kirner

#Osteoporosis #Bones #Collapse

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?
-- Joan Kirner

#Men #Done #Should

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.
-- Joan Kirner

#Cain #Deputies #Ministers

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.