Power has to be insecure to be responsive. Ralph Nader on power
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. Noam Chomsky on power
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. Garrett Hardin on power
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. Noam Chomsky on power
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. J. William Fulbright on power
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans. Joan Jett on power
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing. Jack Nicholson on power
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. Margaret Atwood on power
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. Henry A. Wallace on power
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. Dag Hammarskjold on power
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. Robert Collier on power
I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power. Katherine Heigl on power
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. Hannah Arendt on power
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control. Michael Bloomberg on power
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. Maria Montessori on power
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Milan Kundera on power
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? Sloane Crosley on power
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera on power