People Power Quotes

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

Congress in the immigration law gives the president the power to restrict or suspend the entry of people he may deem appropriate.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

My entire career comes from the power of social media and the way I've utilized those spaces and interacted with people across the world.

Ive spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

I believe passionately in the power of people.

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?"

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

People tend to rally around power.

India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

When you think about people, you give them power.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.