Quotes About Power

I've always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.

Belief in great results is the driving force, the power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries.

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

Few believe Democrats will control both houses of Congress in 2021, and even if they manage to, Republicans will still be around to play spoiler on plenty of big agenda items.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

I believe coming up to heavyweight, I can shine. That's where I feel the best in terms of being agile, speed, cardio, all that kind of stuff plus I have the power.

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

The best way to hit a man is in his pocket.

You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Congress as well as BJP candidates are in the pockets of Adanis.

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's inaugurated in January 2017 - but I'm going to be sitting with the senators.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.