The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long and no longer than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments not on my gender.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again so they saw NS a viable alternative not us because everyone knew we were not ready.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill it's the best possible substitute for it.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

As a woman who has some sort of power you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating even being aware of my idiocy about my weight.

In a world awash in debt power shifts to creditors.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control and then says I'm not sorry and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Culture follows power.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power like a president or prime minister of a major power everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Before I was really passive all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power nothing. I don't know that person any more.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.