If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen.… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused. — James Madison Copy Share Image
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
We have access to millions of people. We have the power to encourage, inspire, and bring hope. Unfortunately, we also have the… — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don't realize they can do that. They think 'It's… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I can't tell my people that you will get power only from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., and after that, we live… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I don't think the people in power realize how detrimental it can be to a way a girl looks at herself if… — Adwoa Aboah Copy Share Image
If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power. — James Franco Copy Share Image
Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
People only have power over you if you give them power, no one can have power over you unless you submit to… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people. — Michael N. Nagler Copy Share Image
Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In the end, no one noticed when protection turned into imprisonment, or when 'for the good of the people' turned into 'for… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government’s petty, silly, pointless… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“It’s only in a democracy where people are the problem … because they have some power, and people with power always get… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power. — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel… — Faith Popcorn Copy Share Image
Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung… — David A. Stewart Copy Share Image