These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Music is something no one can control.

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

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.

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

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

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.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

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.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

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

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

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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

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.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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

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.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

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

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

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

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

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

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.