Quotes About Agency

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

Power is being redefined. Women often explain with care that we mean power to control our lives, but not to dominate others.

If feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves: for our own lives and actions. It is not "women as victims" but women refusing to be victims. What we need, as adults or children, is just one person who has confidence in us, so we can have confidence in ourselves.

Power can be taken but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

As often as not, we forge our own chains. And from those, not even Adonai Himself can free us. We must do it ourselves.

As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.

My father started out as a musician but he had a salary from a day job working as a health inspector for the government. When he left to set up his own entertainment agency his income became more uncertain.

I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they're being really empowered. For me, I'd feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

Women should be someone and not something.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.

My agent said that every Monday after an episode of 'Entourage,' at the staff meeting at the agency, that's all they do is talk about the episode the night before.

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do