"Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them."

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Source : Interview with Tom Peters, tompeters.com.

Harriet Rubin

#Hearing Quotes

“To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.”
“Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Simon & Schuster
“They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”
“The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.”
“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.”
“But just because you can never reach it, doesnâ€™t mean that itâ€™s not worth looking for.”
“A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.”
“As the funds you will expend have come from many places in the world, so let there be no territorial, religious, or color restrictions on your benefactions, but beware of organized, professional charities with high-salaried executives and a heavy ratio of expense.”

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