Power Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image ““thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.”” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Power
Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given. — William Powell Copy Share Image
“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Power could be an illusion of perception. Even within yourself.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The impetus for 'Power' was me writing about my dad, who was an advertising executive and very interested in image. He thought that perception… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. — Mary Beard 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
Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
