Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
When you have these big, strong power hitters who can hit the ball a country mile, and they're strong for a reason and able to do that, as a pitcher you have to keep up.
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains.
All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That's why it's important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a 'power' breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler.
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
There is no limit to the power of loving.
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power.
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.
The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.
I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment.
Congressional intervention and the availability of intervention demonstrably offset agency indifference; are a guard against arbitrary, improper, and illegal bureaucratic decisions; and provide the power of public pressure to require the nonelected official to be responsive.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
