One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
Ines de La Fressange
Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was... →
Janine di Giovanni
The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys... →
F. W. de Klerk
Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil... →
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the... →
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize... →
The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that... →
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and... →
Matt de la Pena
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
Marcus du Sautoy