Quotes About Power

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

The Premier League has a lot of intensity, a lot of physicality.

The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it.

And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

It's football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.

You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?

The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

Hands have a major presence in flamenco, and when your hands are decorated, it adds power.

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

I always try to bring a certain masculine presence to what I do. That is part of the dynamic.

M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.

Hezbollah has a presence - it is in the government, and it enjoys support in the country - but this doesn't mean that Hezbollah is in control of the entire Lebanon.

I want my presence to be felt whenever I step on the field.

Whenever you've got an inside presence, it makes the game extremely easy.

I am never going to be much of a physical presence. For me, it's more about taking my strength and finding a way to use it as an advantage.