Quotes About Power

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

The mind is the greatest weapon in the world.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

My body is my weapon, and I have to keep it in shape; I need to feel strong.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

The most powerful weapon in the world, as far as I'm concerned, is the camera.

It is the power of words and books - explaining and dramatizing great ideas and articulating high ideals - that is the greatest weapon in the missionary's arsenal.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

A state that calculates that using a weapon or tactic of war is in its interest will generally find a way to do so.

You don't need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they're in power.

Judicious absence is a weapon.

Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that's a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

Data is powerful and if it's put in the wrong hands, it becomes a weapon. And we have to understand that companies like Facebook, and platforms like Facebook or Twitter, are not just social networking sites. They're opportunities for information warfare.

It dawned on me that theatre is a powerful weapon for change.

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign using this brand-new weapon. We have to appreciate how the submarine, as a weapon against civilian shipping, was a particularly novel thing - so novel that many people at the time dismissed its potential power, its potential relevance.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.