"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture"

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers"

"Power wears out those who don't have it"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth"

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"