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.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

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

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

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 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.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

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.

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.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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.

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

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

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

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

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

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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.

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

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

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

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

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

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Words are loaded pistols.

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.

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

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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

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.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.