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Quotes About Power

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
~ Noam Chomsky
People tend to rally around power.
~ Noam Chomsky
Palestinians have no wealth or power.
~ Noam Chomsky
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
~ Noam Chomsky
The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.
~ Noam Chomsky
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.
~ Noam Chomsky
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.
~ Noam Chomsky
Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.
~ Noam Chomsky
The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.
~ Noam Chomsky
Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.
~ Noam Chomsky
A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.
~ Noam Chomsky
The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.
~ Nomi Ruiz
A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don't utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that's where the power comes in.
~ Nonito Donaire
Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.
~ Nonito Donaire
Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. --Prince Carrick
~ Nora Roberts
In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy
~ Norbert Wiener
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
~ Norman Mailer
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
~ Northrop Frye
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
~ P. Chidambaram
Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Sometimes when we're in situations where we feel we're not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.
~ Patricia McCormick
Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.
~ Patricia Schroeder
It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
~ Patricia Wentworth
I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.
~ Patrick Carman