Quotes About Power

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

If you disarm someone's hands - they cannot kill you!

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will of the Father.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

You never discount a demagogue.

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

The president actually is there to complement the government in power. If they have done something that is not proper, it is the duty of the president to... discuss and to come to some common ground.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I don't check for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don't wake me up in the morning. I don't care about them, and they certainly don't drive the conversations I'm thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

Just politics in general is a disgusting thing.

Radio has always been just disgusting.

I like wrestling the bigger guys, personally, because I can lay into them harder, and they can dish it back out.

Donald Trump did not cause America's democratic crisis of faith, he rode to power on it. Once in control, he and other populists discovered their room for manoeuvre was expanded by the same disillusionment that helped them into office.

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?

History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.

No power in the country can dissolve the government.