Words matter. These are the best Powerful People Quotes from famous people such as Jose Gonzalez, Douglas Henshall, James P. Gorman, Pulkit Samrat, Amyra Dastur, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you’re not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn’t really thinking.
When you’ve got an audience, there’s a silence in there that you don’t find anywhere else. And it’s really powerful. People are there listening with you and you’re affecting them in some way.
I’m not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.
As a society, we somehow encourage the culture of silence. We are scared to rub powerful people the wrong way for fear of repercussions it might have on our career or social standing. Apathy of authorities does not help matters.
I haven’t faced a casting couch in the South or Bollywood. But yes, I have faced my share of harassment in both industries. I don’t have the guts to name them because they are powerful people – men and women who made sure I felt helpless.
I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it’s a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.
When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn’t sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud… these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.
Famous people I’ve interviewed – powerful people, brilliant people, people whom you look at and think, ‘Seriously, do you not have pores?’ – have turned to me after interviews and asked, ‘Was I okay? I hope I was okay.’
Artists can be the most powerful people in the world because they can use their voice for good. Politicians should be the most powerful people in the world but they aren’t going to do anything.
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That’s something I haven’t seen in a lot of powerful people.
Two powerful people can’t be friends.
The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn’t really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.
I want to tell stories powerful people don’t want you to tell. It’s not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
What’s certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.
For some of Britain’s most powerful people, hunting and shooting are primordial rights, and any challenge to them is treated as illegitimate. They assert ownership not only of the land but also of the social relationships surrounding it.
I know there are some powerful people in the industry who don’t want me to do well.
Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.
I think that dreamers are the most powerful people in the world.
Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They’re not devils. They’re not monsters. They’re human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.
I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.
What’s fun about chefs is that they’re big guys, often, and they might not look like the most athletic people, but they’re very powerful people, and they have tremendous stamina… It takes a toll on their body, too.
Politicians live in mortal terror of ever saying they are sorry about anything, because that would suggest they have been wrong. It is often a trait of powerful people not to want to be seen to back down.
People used to respect royalty to an insane extent that doesn’t exist nowadays. These people never shouted. They never moved, really. Their effort was minimum. They were the most powerful people, but they were just calm.
It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
I have been lucky to meet some incredible people who do not possess what you would traditionally class as power, but through their charisma, passion, and strength of character, they are able to achieve things that ‘richer or more powerful people’ could only dream of.
A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it’s a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
