Quotes About Power

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

Fury itself supplies arms.

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.

When a small number of companies control both the generation and the supply of energy, it's difficult for new players to enter the market.

God gave me the power. God showed me the way. He helps me and gives me support and it's my job to get that message out.

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

I faced a lot of backlash when I spoke about being sexually harassed by Dibakar Banerjee. Not directly, but indirectly, I was boycotted by the entire fraternity that supported the director, because it is a male-dominated set-up.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

In Pakistan, there have been two real powers - one is Bhuttoism, and one is the worshipers of dictatorship. I call them the supporters of the establishment.

What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.