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

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

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

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

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.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

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.

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.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

God created man, but I could do better.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

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.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

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

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

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

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.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Ethics and power are separate.

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

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.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

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

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.