Quotes About Power

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

The person in power takes up the most space.

We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler.

How could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are...can give them real staying power

If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.

Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

Control is the source of strategic power.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.