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.

Words are loaded pistols.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

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

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that 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.

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.

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.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

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

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

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.

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.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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

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.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

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