People Quote by Lena Dunham Download Open image “People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.” — Lena Dunham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Position Position of power Threatened Young Young people Youth
... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels of economic… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be, they are… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You acquire more influence with young people when you give up using your power to control them...and the more you use your power to… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be less likely… — Daniel Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Oberlin being a liberal haven where opposition was king, the coolest clique at school was a group of rugby-playing, neon-wearing lesbians. They dominated every… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'? — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“I am sorry (not to you but in a deeper way, sorry for my brain chemistry and who I am.” — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image