Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Truth is what works.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

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.

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 realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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.

Silence is the mother of truth.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

For me, education was power.

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.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

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

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Knowledge is power.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

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

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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

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