Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

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

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

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

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

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.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

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

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

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

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

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

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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

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.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.