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

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Affluence means influence.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Nature has always had more force than education.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.