Margrethe Vestager Quotes

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Power is paradoxical.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Power has no limits.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Power protects power.

Power resides where men believe power resides.

Owning media is power. That’s the way it is.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.

I want to ultimately own the world.

When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit.

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.