I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

'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 think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

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.

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.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level to evolve.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

I learned a good deal about economics and about America from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like but the right to do what we ought.

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.

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 tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

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.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

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.

Words derive their power from the original word.

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.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed you can have it and possess it but if you open your fingers in any way you can lose it just as quickly.

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors even to our animal neighbors the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.