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However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.
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factory-farm
integrity
powerless
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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"Why am I the way I am?" His tone makes it clear he's proposing something I might suggest he ask, not really wondering about it. "There are no real answers, Jude. Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie."
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creulty
powerful
powerless
prince
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Holly Black |
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Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someone in a position of power over us used and abused us...It seems as if power were something to be wielded, always at someone's expense, usually our own.
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abuse-of-authority
abuse-of-power
abuse-of-trust
abuse-survivors
abusive-parenting
child-abuse
child-sexual-abuse
child-sexual-abuse-survivor
healing
misuse-of-power
parental-authority
power
powerless
powerlessness
survivor
survivor-of-abuse
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Maureen Brady |
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When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness...In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.
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abuse-recovery
abuse-survivors
child-abuse
child-sexual-abuse
child-sexual-abuse-survivor
healing
if-only
incest
letting-go
powerless
powerlessness
survivor
survivor-of-abuse
survivors-of-abuse
truth
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Maureen Brady |
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How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?
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powerless
sadness
suffering
ugliness
why
world
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Gustave Flaubert |
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1b8c65a
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Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?
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powerless
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Firoozeh Dumas |