Quotes on Power

Exercising power can do strange things to people. You can become convinced that you're irreplaceable. You can become convinced that you're always right. And I think the danger is the longer you stay in power, the more likely that is to happen.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

There's so much power in the idea of becoming monstrous. I think we see that in the way some women and girls choose to adorn themselves now. They don't care about being pretty or palatable. They paint their lips black, dye their hair green, file their nails into claws.

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.

The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting inside. His Russia is not a great power on par with America. It is a gas station run by a corrupt, autocratic regime.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.

What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.