The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

Industry need not wish.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

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.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

All art is quite useless.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

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.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

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.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

A word after a word after a word is power.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

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.

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 human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

Affluence means influence.