Quotes About Power

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

War is a perversion of sex.

I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If you've got something you want, and that person who has it wants something in return, it quite literally becomes your job to find whatever it is that they want.

When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

It is not only in Meerut but entire U.P. where caste equation has phenomenal influence on politics.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

When it comes to the fame side of things. I don't think anybody, whether they're famous or not, could claim to understand that phenomenon or have any sort of power over it.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

It doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines.

Thanos is an amoral philosopher. He's not the Devil - although he does sometimes have the Devil standing next to him.

I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.

It's not like I have this philosophical answer as to why I love rock.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.