Petra Kelly Quotes

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.

Petra Kelly

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• People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Power
  • Exercise

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Power
  • Energy

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Power
  • Man
  • Free

• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Loved
  • Strength

• I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Power
  • Night

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Country
  • Best
  • Training

• Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Money
  • Power

• One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Power
  • Right
  • Taught

• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Forget

• I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Power
  • Pretty

• Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

  

  David Korten
  • People
  • Power
  • Free

• Homeowners want solar power. It's cost-effective. We invented a business model that makes it really easy for consumers to switch to solar - and that's solar-as-a-service.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Business
  • Power
  • Service

• All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

  

  Deborah Kerr
  • People
  • Stop
  • Sorry

• It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• 'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Power
  • Strength
  • Shared