Power Matinee Idol

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or idol:

“You don’t have power if you surrender all your principles—you have office.”
—Ron Todd (b. 1927)

“Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that—the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.”
—Emmuska, Baroness Orczy (1865–1947)