Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.