Quotes About Power

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

There is no scope for revolutions coming to Belarus.

I want the score to have a really big voice.

Scoring first changes everything. It makes everything easier for us.

I am sure 'Shakti' will set the screens on fire.

As a screenwriter, you're always being told: a good scene is one where somebody wants something, the other one doesn't want to give it.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

I understand Sean Penn. He has every right to look for El Chapo.

If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

We didn't lose the Punjab State elections for any other reason but the fact that seats were wrongly allocated.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.

The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming.

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

If you are not used to the g-forces, it can really mess with you. There's this overwhelming power that sweeps through the cabin. Your senses get pegged out. You're looking for comfort or safety but you won't find any. All you can do is keep breathing.

My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that's sort of the American system: Mind the problem and worry it, and then we attack it with overwhelming power and put it away - and that's the end of that problem.

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

Everybody is owned by somebody.