Quotes About Power

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.