For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
I really like how the characters always has to go through some type of long journey that’s like a crazy struggle. And these anime shows give women power. She’s always the queen or somebody that you cannot beat – I love that.
Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he’s usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don’t know what to think of it.
Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.
The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds – but we still have the power to change our own.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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 happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it’s worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
A politician’s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Flags are about proclaiming power… that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.
It’s worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure.
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new.
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-’60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The story being told in ‘Star Wars’ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.
Every day alive in the ‘Power’ world is a beautiful day.
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
