People Quotes

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

~ Ai Weiwei

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

~ Huey Newton

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

~ Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

~ Tony Robbins

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

~ Andrew Jackson

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

~ Joseph De Maistre

We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

There's so many people who have never heard of us, but I think what we've learned is you can't underestimate the power of a core fan base and people who believe what you're doing. I think they're the ultimate marketers. They're the ones promoting us.

~ Tyler Joseph

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

~ Eddie Izzard

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

~ James A. Baldwin

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

~ James Madison

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.

~ Bobby Seale

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

~ Black Elk

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

~ Georg Büchner

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

~ John Keegan

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

~ Louis C. K.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

~ Nas

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

~ Caleb Cushing

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

~ Don Delillo

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

~ Yoko Ono

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

~ Steven Wright

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

~ Julian Assange

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

~ Billy Mitchell

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

~ Stephen Lewis

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

~ Spiro T. Agnew

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

~ Garry Kasparov

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

~ Don Delillo

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

~ Black Elk

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.

~ Thom Yorke

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

~ David R. Brower

I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.

~ Gilbert Baker

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

~ Chris Bell

Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

~ Mandy Patinkin

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

~ Jack Lew