Quotes About Power

The movies were custard compared to politics.

Being small, cute is going to do nothing.

Russia is a Tier 1 cyber power.

Politics is cyclical.

Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.

I started really looking for the pitch I know I can drive, the one I can do damage on.

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.

What I will say - one thing that is attractive about getting a real film made within the studio system is that studio systems, with their marketing and distribution, have real power.

Independent content these days can be more successful than previously because of the power of social media. However, there are still systems in place to make sure independent artists don't get as far as signed ones.

I think something that's really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.

Part of an icon's power comes from its indivisibility. The swoosh cannot be further deconstructed into its component parts. Just as golden arches mean McDonald's, and the little red tab means Levi's, the swoosh is Nike. The product is its icon, inseparably and without exception. To buy a pair of Nike shoes is to buy the Nike swoosh.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.