Quotes About Power

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell

It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.

La historia de los pueblos que tienen una Historia es la historia de la lucha de clases. La historia de los pueblos sin Historia es, diremos con la misma verdad, la historia de su lucha contra el Estado.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

He who punishes the vanquished fears not the victor.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

Such subjects are the very strength of kings, And are thus above the law.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

The worst of all states is the people's state.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

La foudre abat les monts, non les petites herbes

Making people fear the expression of their own power is a very effective way of disempowering them. It is not just those who feel the frustration of being silenced: it also encompasses every person who has no idea of their own power to realise their visions because they have not seen this in action in their communities.

The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale.

Every politician should go and spend time and visit prisons and jails. Because if you are choosing to exercise this kind of power over another person's life, there's a role for that, but you have to know the kind of power you are exercising.

The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country.

After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats - on visits to places that have included some of the world's most repressive nations - I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors.

At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words.

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.

The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.

I really believe that the movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer - a movie is basically an abridgment of a book - and because books are internal. But they are incredibly powerful. The visual format is, you know, amazing.