Quotes About Empowerment

I want a chance to be Space Girl, too.

Members are indoctrinated to believe that the Training Routines will help them be more effective in their lives—earn more money, be better communicators, get better jobs. Later they are told that by performing these routines they will help clear the planet of poverty, crime, disease—indeed, of all of humanity's problems. At the highest level, members are told that they can control matter, energy, space, and time. The truth is, they are the ones being controlled.

Truth is stronger than lies, and love is stronger than fear.

The more independent a person is, financially and physically, the less controlled he is by the cult.

God does not command what he does not make possible.

Grace does not diminish our responsibility to the moral requirements of what God requires. Grace does not lower the standard. Rather, grace enables us to meet it. Grace empowers us to fulfill what God requires. Obedience to the word is never optional for the Christian.

The flesh is always self-reliant, while the Spirit creates Christ-reliance. The flesh always trusts in its performance; the Spirit gives confidence in Christ's performance.

Women should never be ashamed to be feminine. Strength comes from conviction, not from acting like a man. Being feminine doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're proud to be a woman.

Love isn't supposed to be something that needs to be handled; it's supposed to be the thing that helps you handle everything else.

Stop feeding your pain and it'll dissipate.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

The words of Jesus have changed the course of history by changing millions of lives, one life at a time.

It seems to me, that if there is a bad taste in your mouth, you spit it out. You don't constantly swallow it back.

The great civil rights leader Howard Thurman once said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

We are the ones that we've been waiting for. — ALICE WALKER

All information should be free. If you don't have access to the information you need to improve things, how can you fix them? A free exchange of information, particularly when the information was in the form of a computer program, allowed for greater overall creativity.

Discipline must come through liberty…. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself.

A computer gives the average person, a high school freshman, the power to do things in a week that all the mathematicians who ever lived until thirty years ago couldn't do.

She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

Use the hook, you

Amazing, isn't it? In fact if not in name, the Roman Empire is being run by women. Legitimacy runs through the female line—from the emperor's wife to her sister, thence to her daughters, and only then to the young emperor and his cousin. No woman has exercised such power since Cleopatra, and even she pales in comparison. Cleopatra had Egypt, and Asia for a while, but Maesa and her daughters rule every province of the Roman Empire.