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.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Power to the peaceful!

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

I do appreciate the '80s as an era, the general sounds and aesthetics of the era. The Cure, that whole kind of image is really kind of amazing, I think. The power ballads and how everything sparkles...

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part...

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

Either I would change lives or end them. The second option is always available.

To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.

Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

With kings and queens inside his bag. Hulaki was a man of power.

Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless...

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.

But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a woman...

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

"... When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question: 'Does he think like a businessman?' Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power?...

Do you think I can't write this and get someone - a drunk married to a fool - to swear to it? Do you think I can't set myself up as a historian? As a storyteller? Do you think I can't write a history...

A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

Well it is said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.