Quotes About Power

In many cases, women are being harassed by people who are on their board or who are associated with one of their venture capitalists.

Even if I am paid in crores, I have no interest to venture to politics.

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

Venus's life story across 5,000 years reminds us not to trivialise the power of desire: the ancients were right to never underestimate its influence.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

What I want to know is that why we, as a nation, we are telling women that it's okay if a man is power tripping on her through either verbal advances or whatever. Why are we normalizing this kind of behavior?

According to the politics of fantasy, mankind is on the verge of perfectibility, if only we give the government just a little bit more money and power.

Now that the Liberal party has returned to power after nearly a decade of Stephen Harper's Conservative government and its on-again, off-again friendliness with Beijing, the propaganda line is that Canada-China relations are on the verge of a 'new golden age.' Count on it. There will be a price, and we will pay. We always do.

The Badals have grown richer while Punjab is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Mrs. Thatcher was a powerful figure at the time I was a student in London. And I admire her versatility and strength.

In college I played power forward because I was one of the biggest guys on the team and my versatility allowed me to do that.

I like the power and versatility of a big band and how an orchestra can vary the dynamics from very loud to very quiet, and SNJO covers those bases.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson I

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

I will take what is mine and keep it for as long as i want

The extreme always makes an impression.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.