“The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.”
– Ron Wyden
“The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.”
– Thomas Malthus
“Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we’re talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade’s non-teen culture has no staying power at all.”
– Rob Sheffield
“I consider ‘Dr. Horrible’ a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else’s hands and changing the world.”
– Nathan Fillion
“Information can bring you choices and choices bring power – educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.”
– Joy Page
“The corporate woman has been defined as the ‘liberated woman’ and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she’s so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.”
– Kenny Loggins
“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”
– Lewis Mumford
“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.”
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
“Biology always beats will power.”
– Mehmet Oz
“But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider… That thought was our power.”
– Joshua Chamberlain
“Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don’t.”
– Ron Wyden
“We need to understand that we are not each others’ enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction… that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.”
– Benjamin Carson
“The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that’s what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.”
– Craig T. Nelson
“It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules – they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn’t play power chords, they probably couldn’t even spell ‘spandex.’ All they had was songs.”
– Rob Sheffield
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
– Pearl S. Buck
“It’s not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.”
– Fareed Zakaria
“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.”
– William Hague
“In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.”
– Fareed Zakaria
“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.”
– James Naismith
“I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.”
– Ayelet Waldman
“As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It’s hard to find those men.”
– Jessica Simpson
“The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.”
– Kenneth Kaunda
“I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.”
– Ayelet Waldman
“Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.”
– Fareed Zakaria
“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.”
– Thomas Hobbes
“For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.”
– George Whitefield
“I learned about the market’s power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.”
– Jack Kemp
“In the sense that you’re not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn’t isn’t unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.”
– Peter Singer
“The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin
“Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.”
– Craig Bruce