Quotes About Power

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

If I say I'm rich enough times and enough people say it back to me, I gotta be rich, right?

If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce.

People don't even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change your reality. Words are powerful - every thought and every word we think has an effect on the body.

I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift of the goddess but a crime against God himself, women were believed to be the vessels of love's malign power.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.

Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America.

The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.

The impetus for 'Power' was me writing about my dad, who was an advertising executive and very interested in image. He thought that perception was reality and what people thought of you was what was real about you.

What I'm saying is that government doesn't work for people. There is a perception of it and a reality of it.

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

Perceptions are essential in politics.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?