"Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Communication Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Punishment Quotes

“We get things wrong before we get things right.”
“It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other”
“When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man.”
“Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.”
“If this is what it's going to take to satisfy everybody, then let's do it and move on.”
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”
“I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.”
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”

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