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.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

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

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

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.

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.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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.

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.

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 purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

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

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.

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

The army is the true nobility of our country.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

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’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

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.