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  • Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

    "The Petraeus Scandal Creates a Thicker Glass Ceiling for Women" by Carol Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.
  • Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

  • I don’t know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it’s more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they’re a woman and people don’t want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.

    "‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Answers Fans’ Questions Live" by Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.
  • About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'

  • It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational.

  • Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  • When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

  • Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.

    Source: collider.com
  • People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

  • Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

  • I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

  • There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

    "I’ll Vote for That" by Katharine Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.
  • Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

    "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: ‘I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly’". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.
  • The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country. And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren't.

    "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.
  • People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

    "Lena Dunham Is Building an Empire". Interview with Ross Mccammon, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2012.
  • I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

    "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.
  • We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.

    Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com
  • Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

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    Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.131, Crux Publishing Ltd
  • Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

    Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.917, Penguin UK
  • There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.

    Janet O. Hagberg (2002). “Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition”, p.273, Sheffield Publishing
  • Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move towards interracial congregations, whites will just dominate then. There are so many more of them, and they're used to being in the position of power. So they'll just take over, and we'll lose the one thing we do have.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.

  • Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

  • I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

    Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”
  • For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

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