Quotes About Power

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.

Women's weapons, water-drops.

Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

All women are lips, nothing but lips.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.