Quotes About Power

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.

America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

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I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.

Money affects everything, from who I'm with to what label I'm on, so everything I do now is about protecting it. But I didn't understand how powerfully that would affect my home life.

New York state's Donnelly Act gives power at least as great - many think greater - than that of the Sherman Act. We have strong consumer protection laws that can be used to protect against scams and frauds by corporate monopolists.

It was impossible to operate in the aluminium business without krysha - very real physical protection.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.

The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

My mum taught me the power of protest.

I don't want to protest. I want to get into power.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.

Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.