“If there is alignment among stakeholders, values, and actions, we have the agency to make things happen.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“Our agency emerges through choice. Applied to our actions, we must continue choosing, thinking of ourselves as creators of our futures.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from anybody.”
Source: Antarctica
“Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make nettle soup and dandelion bread, ask for nothing.”
Source: Antarctica
“The zoo industry is full of such contradictions. It helps people learn about the importance of animals, but not what is vitally important to the animals themselves. Sea mammals, elephants, and primates are capable of so many amazing feats, but they are incapable of demonstrating their intentions and making their own choices. The industry encourages you to think that these animals are intelligent, but not intelligent enough to have the ability to resist. The industry encourages you to care about them, so that you and your children will return for a visit. But it does not want you to care so much that you might develop empathy and begin to question whether these animals actually want to be there.”
Source: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
“Few people are denied agency as much as a teenage girl: She is dismissed, belittled, cut down to size at every turn. Her pleas for help are derided as 'attention seeking," and Heaven help her should she dare come forward with stories of abuse at the hands of someone who has power over her – namely, nearly everyone. Cutting, eating disorders, and other types of self-harm are some of the more earthbound cries for help, and at the other, extreme end of the spectrum
dwells the poltergeist.”
Source: A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
“I am responsible, not only for what I do, but also for what is done to me.”
Source: Runot ja aforismit
“Although I have helped each of you in your development, there is none of you that I can say, I made you what you are. All the growth that each of you have experienced is because of the choices you have individually made.”
Source: Ri Conquers the Multiverse
“For the desire for freedom, as the antinomy to domination, does not easily square with the need, in the projects that humans pursue together, for delegation—it does not accommodate easily the complexities of authorship as a social phenomenon”
Source: Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies
“Je suis contente de moi, comme ça, plus désirante que désirable.”
Source: King Kong théorie