Quotes About Power

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

Innovation demands risk-taking - which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

The saffron rule is prevailing in 22 States in India and we will strive to bring saffron rule in Tamil Nadu also.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That's like a freed slave striving to become a slave owner.

I love this country, but I feel like we're losing sight of who actually holds the power and what makes us great: it's the people, the communities, the small places that are forgotten, everyone that's striving.

Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

We have a very strong politician of global stature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. There is no one like him on the world stage.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.

Negative peace is possible as long as you have a strong army.