Quotes About Power

Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford to play subtler, more variegated roles. Leaders of the U.S. don't have that option.

There is power in music, certainly when an audience starts to show up and you have the option to send good messages.

If you lease a part of your soul in a campaign, Washington, D.C., and the establishment... will think they have an option to buy.

I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next?

If you want to be a powerful woman, you need money. It gives you options and freedom so you don't have to think about money all the time.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.

Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

If I'm ordering power bars online, I'll order 480. Everything is times-10 in my life.

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

It is Cameron's cabinet of millionaires who are the real spongers given free rein to live out their Thatcherite fantasies at the expense of ordinary, decent communities throughout these islands.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

Such is the sense of entitlement of Boris Johnson and his establishment class - they believe they can break the law without the consequences meeting ordinary people.

Look what consumer power has done with organic food; we can do the same with clothes.

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.