The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

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

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

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.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Whatever final judgment awaits ‚Bush v. Gore‘ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.