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Quotes About Power

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
~ Harry Bridges
I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.
~ Sandra Bullock
Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.
~ Alan Gerry
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
~ Cyril Connolly
The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.
~ Norman Parkinson
My bass is my weapon.
~ Tim Commerford
Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.
~ Tom Catena
Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today's politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.
~ Raj Thackeray
Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal.
~ Rick Perry
The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.
~ Bernie Mac
You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.
~ Judd Gregg
I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.
~ Sarah Shahi
A secret is a weapon and a friend.
~ James Stephens
In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
~ Malcolm X
Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
~ Antony Beevor
My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'
~ Michael Keaton
The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.
~ Christian Slater
Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
~ Molly Ivins
Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.
~ Lionel Shriver
I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
~ Imelda May
If Russia wants to use energy as a weapon against our friends and allies, let's use our resources to set them free.
~ Kevin McCarthy
The use of hunger as a weapon of political control is a crime against humanity.
~ Robert Zubrin
There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.
~ Maryanne Trump Barry
A lawsuit can be a weapon.
~ Bari Weiss