The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

A word after a word after a word is power.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Affluence means influence.

You can’t generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.