A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. Ani DiFranco
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. Ralph Nader
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. Akhenaton
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. Jonathan Swift
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Theodor Adorno
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Frank Lloyd Wright
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty? Mason Cooley
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. Wole Soyinka
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. Henry A. Wallace
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. Scott Adams
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' Abigail Adams
I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company. Zoe Saldana
If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? Mary Wollstonecraft
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. Michel Foucault
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. John Stuart Mill
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. George W. Bush
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. Judd Rose
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. Vine Deloria, Jr.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. Simone Weil