Quotes About Power

The moment when a feeling enters the body is political.

What do I mean by commitment? I'll flash back to 1821: Shelley's claim, in "The Defence of Poetry", that "poets are the unacknowledged legislaters of the world". Piously overquoted, mostly out of context, it's taken to suggest that simply by virtue of compossing verse, poets exert some exemplary moral power - in a vaue, unthreatening way. (...) He did NOT say, "Poets are the unacknowledged interior decorators of the world".

The faceless, sexless, raceless proletariat. The faceless, raceless, classless category of "all women". Both creations of white Western self-centeredness. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

The thing is that Chuck Schumer, for all his power and influence, is a pretty pathetic figure. You go around New York State, and people make jokes about him and talk about how he shows up at the New York State Fair and has a staffer carrying a big sign saying 'Come meet Chuck Schumer.'

The most amazing feeling in the world is destroying. It takes so much strength and patience and time to build, and destruction is fast, fast, fast. Explosive.

As medical data has such power to deliver better understanding of disease and better patient outcomes, it is important we find the best way of sharing it.

We can bring health care back to the states and bring power back to patients. I think of that commercial from 1984 when Apple took a hammer and broke the screen.

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

Paul Ryan's in for Paul Ryan.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Renzi is a pawn. Renzi is a dumb slave at the disposal of nameless people who want to control all of our lives from Brussels.

Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.