The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

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.

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 was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

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.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

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

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

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.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

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

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

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

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

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 highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

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 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.

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

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

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

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.