"Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name."

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Source : Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace

Petra Kelly

#Discovery Quotes #Names Quotes #Receiving Quotes

“L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.”
“I'm really passionate about the song Sky Spills Over. It was fun creating it in the studio and I've been overwhelmed at the response it gets when we perform it live every night. My son Ryan is a really talented filmmaker so I always enjoy working with him on a project. But what made this project even more special was that 3 of my own grandkids were in the video. This video was a lot of fun to make. I hope people enjoy it!”
“You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.”

Source : "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.”

Source : Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company
“We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.”

Source : "The Inflection Is Near?" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. Match 7, 2009.
“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”
“The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.”
“I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!”

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