Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

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

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

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.

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.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

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

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

He who has great power should use it lightly.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

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

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

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

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

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

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

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

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

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 song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.