There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the people of Zimbabwe. And the more they become intransigent, the more they become vicious and try to...

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

I really learned that, when I got into television, I really learned the power, how deeply it affects people to see themselves on television, to see something that they can relate to, that they feel is...

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

There are two things I want to be able to know when I walk into a fight, or with anything in life. And I'm not Superman, I'm not even that great at fighting. Those two things are: I have done...

I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give me comfort. As I grew up, I realized I could find that sense of power and voice if I...

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take...

The representatives of people become uncrowned kings and queens once they get into Parliament.

I don't want to look old in my advanced years so I go on a power walk for half an hour every day, and it helps to keep the pounds off.

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal...

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem....

Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one...

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has...

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here...

Power is the by-product of understanding.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.