Quotes About Power

I loved Celine Dion. I loved Whitney Houston and these big powerhouse vocals.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

'Vogue' has the power to make and break - whether it's fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

If Donald Trump has proved anything, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a candidate's voice.

I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really been my power, I feel.

I have a really feminine voice, but I also feel quite powerful when I write. So my songs feel heavy, and that's how Banks sounds. It's a really short, powerful sound. It almost sounds masculine, and I like having that dichotomy.

One has to be blessed to have a voice that creates impact.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies.

Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.

The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against the menace of U.S. and the unrestricted use of its power. Pinter's voice is an unceasing thunder.

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.

I do believe in our system there's a role for holding the government accountable, and it's very important to have voices who represent the people and ensure the government, which has enormous power, respects the will of the people. That's what I hope to do.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say over how our societies are run.