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.

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.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

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.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

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

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.