It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
There’s no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody’s face just by walking into a room. It’s unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
Media is a double-edged sword and has the power to change hearts and minds through authentic storytelling as well as the power to paint a person, or an entire community, in a dim and misleading light.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.
You will not tell me that you accept me. You will not tell me that you tolerate me. That is not your power. I take that from you. You will respect me for who I am.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
