“Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.”
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“Words derive their power from the original word.”
“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”
“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.”
“There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.”
“Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.”
“The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.”
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”
“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.”
“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”
“It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.”
“'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”
“I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.”
“Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”
“He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.”
“I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.”
“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”
“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
“It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.”
“I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.”
“I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.”
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”