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

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.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

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

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

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

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

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

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.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

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.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

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.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Power is competence.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

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

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.