One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Control is the source of strategic power.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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.

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

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

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

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.

I think governments can’t do much.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Precaution is better than cure.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

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.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

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

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

Music is something no one can control.

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

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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

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.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

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

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?

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Power is competence.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She’s bigger than me. She’s on a different level of performance that I have never done.

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.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

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