If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! – Andrei Platonov
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers. – Armstrong Williams
It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so. – Burgess Owens
You want to play in every game, and you especially don’t want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don’t want to hurt anyone on the other team. – Carl Hagelin
With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends. – Anita Elberse
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. – Beatrix Potter
I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it’s good to add colour. – Anthony Horowitz
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish. – Cornelius Vanderbilt
I’m able to give a voice to the athletes around the world – use my degree for something other than the power play. – Angela Ruggiero
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives. – Barton Gellman
In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well – power is a big word to say – more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life. – Anton Corbijn
Putin and his advisers don’t understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don’t realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue. – Alexei Navalny
I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There’ll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there’ll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy. – Brian Lamb
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. – Calvin Coolidge
The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation. – Ben Carson
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. – A. J. P. Taylor
I think Michael Moore is an amazing man – an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, ‘Don’t associate with Cindy Sheehan.’ People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country. – Cindy Sheehan
Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. – Aristotle
I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people. – Corazon Aquino
Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. – Alice Walker
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. – Christopher Hitchens
Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what – one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it’s our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it’s our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity. – Caroline Kennedy
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. – Aldous Huxley
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power. – Arundhati Roy
I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come. – Bob Dylan
