Quotes About Power

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

The strength of the club is fundamental to the successes of Juventus.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.

I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.

The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.

There's loads of succession stories to draw on.

Succession moments are always dangerous for democracies.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.

Social justice for parties like the DMK, DK and the PMK is nothing but practising dynasty politics. Their concept of social justice is successor and family rule.

Two considerations led President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to choose Luis Donaldo Colosio as his successor: history and loyalty.

We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.