Quotes About Power

I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

Politicians are at a great distance from the academic world. Barack Obama was my colleague at Chicago - but could i ever talk to him now? Never.

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

I have bad vision, but it's not distorted. It's low power!

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

When it comes to fighting for progress in Boston, there's a long history of people in power trying to label advocacy and hard work as being political in order to avoid accountability and distract from community demands for better leadership.

Let's cause some senators distress.

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.

BJP can only divide and terrorize people.

People who are divided are easier to control.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That's the power social media makes possible.

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

In the past, I would try to use as little strength as possible because strength will get you tired if you explode too many times. Well, get in shape.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

Politicians will only exploit you for nothing.

Affective exploitation is crucial to late capitalism.

All art is exploitation.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.