Quote by Theodor Adorno
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property:

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. – Theodor Adorno

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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. – Theodor Adorno

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Well never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. – Gloria Steinem

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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. – Thomas Malthus

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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. – E. Stanley Jones

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone Weil

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