The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
A politician is a person who trades promises for power, and then trades the people’s trust for personal gain.
But when people are angry, they tend to say things they do not mean... Anger is a very powerful feeling.
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.
I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do besides high heels and magic powers.
The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.
Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.
It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.
If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.
Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.
We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
