Traditional Power Quotes

Our devotion to individual freedom limits our readiness to give central government the power to override our traditional power structure.

Simon Bolivar belongs to the band of modern men whose equals are to be found only when we reach back to republican times of Greece and Rome... In the midst of people who had no more tradition than the respect for an authority sanctioned by the acquiescence of three centuries of ignorance, superstition, and fanaticism, nor any political dogma but submission to an order of things supported by might and force, Bolivar succeeded in defying that power

Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

We, the monarchs, are undoubtedly constants in a constantly changing world. Because we have always been there, but also because we do not get involved in everyday politics. We are aware of the political changes in our societies, but we don't comment on them. This is where we assume a unique position.

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