The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.
I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.