Power & Society Sayings

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

I would rather be ruled by a wise Turk than by a foolish Christian.

Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

To conquer the mind is to conquer the world.

Let those who have been fighting against their brothers and relatives now fight in a proper way against the barbarians.

May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.

Walking is man's best medicine.

It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.

To be a Christian is to be an underdog, a subversive, a revolutionary, a troublemaker.

To be a human being is to be a political animal, and that means to be a creature who is capable of reasoning and deliberation about the common good.

The moral arc of the universe bends towards justice, but only if we actively bend it.

Don't underestimate the power of your words.

The future of humanity is not about robots taking over, but about algorithms knowing us better than we know ourselves.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

America is ungovernable for us. He who serves a revolution plows in the sea.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound, and it is the one flesh of all humankind.