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.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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

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

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.

Nature has always had more force than education.

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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.

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.

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

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

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 think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

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

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

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.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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.

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

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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

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

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

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

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

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