The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

For me, education was power.

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

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.