Quotes About Power

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

If you don't hit hard and you weigh 260 pounds, that is something to worry about.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

It's just something that God blessed me with. I've got power, so it really don't matter what weight class I'm in. I'm still going to have the same power as I had at any weight class I'm in.

All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature.

In Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil, those who disrespect the law will feel the weight of that very same law.

Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

People go on about weight. Mike Tyson wasn't the biggest heavyweight and he was an animal.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

There is no one stronger than Mitrovic - no chance. When you see him lifting weights, you know it's not possible.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

I don't want to do all weights. I want to get strong using my core and my natural power.

The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.