Quotes About Power

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

Of course Trump thinks he is above the law. For his entire life, he has been able to say and do whatever he felt like saying or doing - not just without consequence, but he has been able to say or do whatever he felt like saying or doing - and rise up all the way to the position of President of the United States.

What you do as president has consequences.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.

It isn't brave to stand up for gun control in a building surrounded by armed guards. It's simply elitist.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they're old and grizzled. I'm no stranger to that dynamic.

For some of Britain's most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate. They assert ownership not only of the land but also of the social relationships surrounding it.

The values of democracy, brotherhood, and freedom that constitute the building blocks of American society are also shared by Israeli society, together with the faith in man's power and ability to change and influence his surroundings.

Surveillance breeds conformity.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their reign over them, especially when they are in a minority.

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

Representation is a sort of surveillance.