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

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.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

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

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

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

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

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

Be the chief but never the lord.

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.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

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

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 unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

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

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

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.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

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

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

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.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

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

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

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.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

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’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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

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