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.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

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

A great fortune is a great slavery.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

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

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

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.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

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

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

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

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

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

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

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

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

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn’t move to New York to make a fortune.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Law is always better than war.

War is what happens when language fails.

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.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

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.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

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

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.