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.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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.

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.‘

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

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.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

I love being in the United States Senate.

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

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

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.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.