#power

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#act #aspirations #congress #does #empowered

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? ↗

— Naomi Klein

#inspiration #just #just do it #message #nike

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#corrupted #debate #get #goal #goals

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#access #actually #because #committed #few

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#being a lady #lady #like #people #power

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#career #early #i #learned #lot

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#always #decide #god #had #his

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history. ↗

— Thuy Trang

#everything #got #history #i #i tried

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#company #crowd #digestion #even #exercised

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#always #appeal #circumstances #colored #desire