People In Power Quotes

#1. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

DeForest Soaries

#2. There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

Randa Haines

#3. The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

Andrew Marr

#4. I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.

Brigid Schulte

#5. Rosa Lee," he said, "with the privilege to vote - to choose - we can change things, even put our own people in power.

Linda Williams Jackson

#6. The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Robert Atkins

#7. I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

Alexei Navalny

#8. People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

Zaha Hadid

#9. I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Rory Bremner

#10. There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.

Heather Brooke

#11. I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.

Ricky Gervais

#12. 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.

Jasmine Guy

#13. The power in people is stronger than people in power.

Saji Ijiyemi

#14. It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

John Lasseter

#15. Every civilization has had a form of currency, usually silver and gold, that is controlled by the rulers and kings of that society. The people in power remain in power by controlling the circulation of money. It is no different today than it was thousands of years ago.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#16. In Russia only those who are loyal to the people in power can become wealthy.

Vladimir Sorokin

#17. People in power will lie to keep it. Honesty doesn't make you less human.

Henry Johnson Jr

#18. The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.

Frank Knight

#19. The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

William S. Burroughs

#20. I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

#21. Why do you always make it sound like everything was better before I was born?"
"It's not you, Mitchell. There was just more civility back then. We still had respect for authority, I guess. This is what happens when no one trusts the people in power.

Brian K. Vaughan

#22. In the end, no one noticed when protection turned into imprisonment, or when 'for the good of the people' turned into 'for the good of the people in power.' It was all baby steps, all the way.

Mira Grant

#23. Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.

Bassem Youssef

#24. In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it's fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you're going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.

Vladimir Putin

#25. A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

Craig Newmark

#26. Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#27. One of the functions that things like professional sports play, in our society and others, is to offer an area to deflect people's attention from things that matter, so that the people in power can do what matters without public interference.

Noam Chomsky

#28. Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.

Michael N. Nagler

#29. People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Anna Deavere Smith

#30. The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

Wael Ghonim

#31. It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

Colin Hay

#32. There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

Pete Seeger

#33. The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

Brandon Sanderson

#34. Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

Pete Seeger

#35. Decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem at hand but that fit with the interests or beliefs of the people in power.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#36. 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

#37. Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.

Vince Staples

#38. I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

Joe Sacco

#39. Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

Nas

#40. God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.

Kenneth Patchen

#41. The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

John Podhoretz

#42. When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#43. I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Nawal El Saadawi

#44. Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?

William Powell

#45. To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

Ron Suskind

#46. Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.

Elizabeth Banks

#47. This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

Richelle Mead

#48. I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Billy Graham

#49. Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.

Yoko Ono

#50. I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

Sarah Hall

#51. If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social problems. I felt gloomy under this social dictatorship. Looking back, I feel like I never saw a sunrise in Seoul.

Kim Hyesoon

#52. I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

Gil Scott-Heron

#53. If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

Jenny Hval

#54. History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

George Carlin

#55. If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

Elliott Abrams

#56. Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

Sam Kean

#57. Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

Andrew Klavan

#58. I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

Kevin Harrington

#59. People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

David Miscavige

#60. Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

Frederick Lenz

#61. There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#62. If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

William Greider

#63. Knowledge is only potential power. For the power to be manifested, it must be applied. Most people know what they should do in any given situation, or in their lives, for that matter. The problem is that they don't take daily, consistent action to apply the knowledge and realize their dreams.

Robin S. Sharma

#64. For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.

Wangari Maathai

#65. I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

Jim Courier

#66. Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

Dan Buettner

#67. From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have.

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

#68. people call magic is power in action." "Action!

Miguel Ruiz

#69. I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

Charles Barkley

#70. Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds ...

Paula Gunn Allen

#71. The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

Robertson Davies

#72. When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.

Bocafloja

#73. Not only the people of Nepal but also those who believe in the power of democracy are looking at Nepal and this assembly.

Narendra Modi

#74. A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.

Arthur Herman

#75. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

#76. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.

David Suzuki

#77. I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

Larry Kramer

#78. Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code
a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people
or, rather, there aren't any right people.

B.F. Skinner

#79. Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

Kate Chopin

#80. Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Tim Minchin

#81. The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

William A. Dembski

#82. To me art means power to sway people not with my words but with a mere picture. Art means expression, not my own but of the subjects. Art means truth; because when you see a picture you see all that is real. Art is exposure, showing things in a way they haven't been seen before.

CV

#83. I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

Michael C. Hall

#84. Elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid ...

Zoe Heller

#85. I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

Nikki Reed

#86. Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

Boyd Rice

#87. In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

Joel Edgerton

#88. There's a lot of power in the word 'no,' and a lot of people, like myself, need to know that.

Meghan Trainor

#89. I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

Nicolas Cage

#90. The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.

Sol Luckman

#91. You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

Gary Zukav

#92. Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.

Joan Didion

#93. But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#94. In the sense of worldly advantage, it no longer signified whether people thought of him as having been an authentic man of virtue. There was no more political power or influence
to be gained from maintaining that identity. But to him it still mattered.

Marisa Linton

#95. My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.

Arthur Frommer

#96. There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.

Harold Klemp

#97. A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.

William Jennings Bryan

#98. Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

Shana Alexander

#99. Look, you don't want to put the power in the hands of the people, okay? You're just going to get three hundred write-in votes for My Dick.

Brenna Yovanoff

#100. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.

Sigurd F. Olson