Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it's fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you're going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.
I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.
Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power
Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.
This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.
Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
