Quotes About Power

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

American influence in the world depends on the ability to act with real capacity and set an example that others will want to follow. This all takes resources.

Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the signings of players.

Money can make or break you. It just depends on what you make it to be.

A country's future depends on its ability to bite back.

There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Power derives from money. I always wanted to make a lot of money on my own, to have power from that.

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.

We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.

When we complain to Egypt's Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, 'But who is the alternative?' It is a question designed to frustrate.

The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.

Desire creates the power.

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

Only the elites despise earning money.

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

When the people want to retake their destiny in hand, they can do it, despite this ceaseless campaign of denigration and infantilization.

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.