Power and speed be hands and feet.

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

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.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

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.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

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.

For me, education was power.

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.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

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.

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

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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

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.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

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.

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.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Words are loaded pistols.

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

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

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

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.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

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.

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.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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.

I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

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

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Affluence means influence.

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

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.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.