Quotes About Power

It can only sound one way with the Prodigy - vicious, banging and, yeah, incites a riot.

There's a boxer called Lucia Rijker, she's vicious, and Nunes is very much like her.

Im as masculine as the next man - get me on the mountain bike and Im vicious.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.

As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.

The entertainment industry has three kinds of politics - sexual politics, money politics and power politics. A desperate actor can become victim of any of these political games.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

In the public eye, being a victim of past injustices does not win the right to propagate current and future ones, and that's intolerable to those in charge of the race industry today, whose power relies on maintaining forever a latent rage that can be turned on and off at the will of the nation's elites.

To make it big, a fighter needs power. Otherwise, sooner or later, he'll fall victim to opponents who force the issue and take two or three punches to land one.

If one tries to expose the Harvey Weinsteins of Bollywood, some very big empires and icons will fall down. My nephew was a victim of one of those. But who will fight their muscle? You need many Kangana Ranauts for that.

There's a greater power and charisma when a woman is aware of her sexual prowess when it's not necessarily about victimization or someone else's pleasure but her own feeling about her own body and understanding and loving herself.

Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of constant persecution and victimization; and their existential fears of an America whose racial makeup, sexual mores and gender roles were careening in the opposite direction of the country of their childhood.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.