Power Perception Quotes

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have

But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.

Power in Washington is simply the perception of power.

When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you're 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you're speaking truth to power.

In Mexico, the perception of power is power.

I'd love to be a woman for one day of my life... God... I would be drunk with power.

Women who have power are always feared.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

People have different relationships with power. I suppose a large portion of the 'Homeland' audience aligns with the U.S., sort of against the enemies. We certainly have the CIA viewpoint on the world - and it's their job.

Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own.

Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.

With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.

I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.

The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.