Power & Society Sayings

184 sayings found from the Contemporary era from 184 authors

The universe is a machine for the making of gods.

— Carl Sagan Unknown
Power & Leadership

If you are scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson 2014
Power & Leadership

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

— Nelson Mandela Unknown
Power & Leadership

Something can be about me…and it can still be none of my business.

— Taylor Swift 2025 (approximate, podcast release)
Money & Business

I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician.

— Margaret Thatcher 1987
Political

I've often wondered how we'd stand up to an alien invasion. And then I've thought that if there was an alien threat, that would unite us all.

— Ronald Reagan 1987
War & Conflict

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

— Ayatollah Khomeini 1970s
Political

I am a soldier, and I will die as a soldier.

— Yasser Arafat 2002
War & Conflict

To get rich is glorious.

— Deng Xiaoping 1980s
Money & Business

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

— Kurt Cobain Unknown
War & Conflict

We are fighting for our land, not for the white man's land. The land belongs to us.

— Robert Mugabe 2000
War & Conflict

I am a communist, a convinced communist. For some, this may be a fantasy. But for me, it is my main goal.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1990
Political

I am not going to be a puppet of anyone. I will be an independent leader.

— Boris Yeltsin 1991
Power & Leadership

If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

— Barack Obama 2012
Money & Business

Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!

— Donald Trump 2015
Political

I'm not a politician, I'm a trade unionist.

— Lech Walesa 1980s-1990s
Political

Without free, independent, and strong popular opinion, there can be no democracy.

— Vaclav Havel Various
Political

There is no peace without justice, no justice without forgiveness.

— Desmond Tutu Uncertain
Justice & Rights

Life in the NBA breaks down like this: 50% sex, 50% money.

— Dennis Rodman c. 1990s-2000s
Money & Business

Surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.

— Kim Jong-un 2017
Political
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