“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.”
– Sandra Day O’Connor
“Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.”
– Chris Martin
“We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.”
– Cornel West
“The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.”
– Thomas Hobbes
“Culture follows power.”
– Fareed Zakaria
“Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.”
– Herbert Hoover
“When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I’m not sorry, and I’d do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.”
– William Hague
“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
“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
“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
“In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.”
– Fareed Zakaria
“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 to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.”
– Charles Evans Hughes
“I don’t know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.”
– Ofra Haza
“The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.”
– Edward Gibbon
“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
– Salman Rushdie
“Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.”
– Charlize Theron
“Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn’t have any creative power, nothing. I don’t know that person any more.”
– Gwen Stefani
“Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”
– Dan Brown
“We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power.”
– Manuel Puig
“Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.”
– Maimonides
“This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.”
– Joe Biden
“Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler’s short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.”
– James Buchan
“Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.”
– Dee Dee Myers
“Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.”
– Charlotte Davis Kasl
“Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.”
– David Ogden Stiers
“Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.”
– Jules Renard
“I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.”
– Todd Gitlin