Quotes About Power

Sport in itself has this power. If you are a poet or a singer, people gravitate. I may not be in the same category, but I will make a comparison with Bob Marley. So it isn't just cricket where social commentary plays a huge part.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.

People are deciding - if they don't like a particular point of view or a particular paper, it goes out of business.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Classical music can rock you!

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.

Bayern is one of the biggest clubs in Europe.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

Women, when they do break into power or succeed, can expect to have their lives scrutinised for clues to how they managed it exactly because these women are, alas, still exceptions to the rule.