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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

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.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

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.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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.

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.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

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

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.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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.

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’m all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it’s called ‚Kiss Land,‘ it’s probably going to be the most terrifying thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

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.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

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

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

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

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

For me, education was power.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

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.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

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

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.