Power Quotes

"When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park."

"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

"Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times it is the rule."

"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment."

"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."

"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."

"The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving."

"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."

"My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well."

"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."

"The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war."

"I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out."

"Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America."

"My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds."

"With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game."

"I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable."