The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.
Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
