One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

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

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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.

Precaution is better than cure.

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She’s bigger than me. She’s on a different level of performance that I have never done.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

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

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

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

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.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

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

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.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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

I think governments can’t do much.

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.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

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

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

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

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

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

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.