Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. xxiv.
“What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.”
As quoted in the New York Times Magazine (11 September 1994).
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“Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.”
Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 3: The Forms of Power
“We are defined by how we use our power.”
"The Rat Hole" (25 December 2003) http://www.gerryspence.com/the-rat-hole/
“Power, like love, is easier to experience than to define or measure.”
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 3, Balance of Power and World War I, p. 60.
Hofstede (1997, p. 28) Anthony Henry (2008) Understanding Strategic Management. p. 359.
Source: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, The consideration of some examples of sharp and suppressed definition, p. 39
“Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”
Katie, Chapter 29, p. 236
Variant: Maybe I’d like to
be defined by what I am.
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)