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.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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.

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.

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.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

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

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

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Knowledge is power.

Nature has always had more force than education.

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.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

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

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

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.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

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

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

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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

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

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.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

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.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

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

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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.

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.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

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