Quotes About Power

These impossible women! How they do get around us!

The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

I understand now that my soul is my power, not perfection or my ego. I continue to teach this to my children, despite their glamorous careers. If we can maintain our core values, the exteriors take second place and become a gift, a source of gratitude.

With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.

'Originals' is a show that is not about struggling as a vampire but reveling in it. It's about embracing vampirism.

Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.

Somebody asked me, 'Why do people like vampires so much?' This was right after Obama had been elected and I said, 'Because we just spent eight years being sucked dry by one.'

There is a certain swagger with vampires.

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage.

Eliminate the energy vampires in your house. Connect all of your appliances to power strips and turn them off they're when not in use.

In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.