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

Our intention creates our reality.

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

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.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

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

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

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

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

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

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

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.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

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

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

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.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

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

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

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

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren’t really about anything – which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

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.

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

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

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.

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

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Ethics and power are separate.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.