Quotes About Power

It is never ok for politicians to abuse their power for self enrichment, and even for has-beens and also-rans there has to be some brand of justice so present and future presidents don't get lured into taking crafty, well disguised bribes pretending it's 'charity.'

There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

My size is a danger, my power and my athletic ability.

Populism is dangerous.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

A time would come when nobody in the State would dare antagonise the BJP if they were to conduct politics in Tamil Nadu.

I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.

I believe that if America does not lead, others will - others who do not share our interests and our values - and the world will grow darker, for our friends and for us.

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

The greater the darkness, the better the drama.