Quotes About Power

Joe Biden views the Cuomos the same way he views the Clintons and the rest of the elite Democrats, that's the base of their party. These are the establishment people in the in the Democrat Party. And everybody defers to them.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

Full statehood in Delhi is a larger issue as compared to anti-corruption. For, only when the Delhi government gets its anti-corruption bureau back will it get the power of suspension and vigilance inquiries on corrupt officers of different departments of the government. That is how you can curb the corruption.

Given Ivan's size and power, we must remain vigilant.

There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

I don't want The Flash to become a vigilante. I don't want him to abuse the power.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

However vile the abuse they receive, media people must remember this is part of the price of getting a public voice. Stay grateful. Don't kick down, kick up. Criticise power rather than proles.

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it.

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

I would love to be a villain.

'Flying Jatt' is a superhero movie, and the villain needs to be really strong.

There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.

I really want to be a villain.