„A világbéke akkor érhető el, ha a szeretet hatalma felváltja a hatalom szeretetét.”
„Ha nem szereted magad, hogy a fenébe akarsz szeretni mást?”
„Amikor kételkedsz a hatalmadban, hatalmat adsz a kétségednek.”
„Semmi az egész univerzumban nincs hatalma feletted, míg te magad nem engedi hatalmat fölötte.”
Eredeti: Nothing in the universe has power over you until you allow it to exercise such a power. Teljes szöveg (angolul) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_1/Karma-Yoga/Non-attachment_is_complete_self-abnegation
Hova tovább? (1967)
Eredeti: There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
Eredeti: Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
„Az hatalom az, ha azt mondják, hogy nem szeretnek, és ez nem tesz tönkre.”
