Quotes About Power

The problem, of course, lies in companies viewing governments and citizens as equals, while in fact governments are, by and large, using their power to implement policies where passing laws is impossible without also changing the national constitution. By remaining neutral, corporations are acting as conduits of the state. They are today's censors, not unlike the religious institutions and governments that came before them.

And although it may seem that governments and citizens (in the form of NGOs or civil society organizations) are given somewhat equal access, the truth is that no citizen, not even a director of a powerful NGO, can simply pick up the phone and dial Mark Zuckerberg to complain about a policy decision the way that Israeli prime minister Netanyahu has been known to do.62

The result? An increasingly stratified online world in which the rules about what we can say are determined by a motley crew of elected officials and non-elected elites, some of whom have alarmingly close ties to government.

Dozens of articles took aim at pundit Malcolm Gladwell after he dismissively wrote in the New Yorker: "Please. People protested and brought down governments before Facebook was invented.

The third conclusion I've made is: if governments are collaborating, so must we. When it comes to expression, one thing remains certain: no one will moderate the speech of governments or their officials. Sure, Twitter will fact-check Trump, and Facebook will boot members of foreign governments (and maybe someday even the president of the United States), but in the grand scheme of things, we might be watching the watchers, but no citizen has the power to silence them.

Facebook and its counterparts operate more like churches than courts; they are subject to influence by states and the wealthy, and all too content with disregarding the needs of their subjects in favor of those with power.

If Women's Lib want a crack at the positions of power, they must forfeit their position of weakness. It will be men and children in future who will be helped solicitously into the first lifeboats, and the man who sits like a stuck pig in the car while his wife leaps out in the pouring rain, opens the door for him, and spikes her eyes out as she covers him with an umbrella.

Lord of the Lies - referencing former President Trump

A believer who has been giving in to the pull of his sinful heart never learns the extent of its power over him until he begins to do right. It is very much like the experience of one who is rowing a canoe. As long as he is going with the current, he has no idea how strong the current really is. Only when he decides to turn his canoe around and start rowing against the current does he experience its true strength.

bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days.

The appointments secretary had taken Kilduff by the arm and pointed to the broad back of Lyndon Johnson. "He's got what he wants now,

When Robert irritated men of lofty station, they complained to the President, and

In America, our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

In an interview when asked about becoming a fantasy creature] You know, it might be fun to be Sanguinarius Meyerii (better known as "sparklers"). They have all of the vampire superpowers and almost none of the weaknesses: no burning up in sunlight, no vulnerability to garlic, etc. As for my demise, I have no idea what you're talking about. Once I get this kind of power, I'm planning to live forever. It's the only way I'll catch up on my reading!

As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened.

It's amazing how quickly you start following the rules when someone sticks a cranial explosive to the base of your skull.

If you really want to kill a libriomancer, hook a bomb up to a big red button and tell him not to press it.

Be ready to walk away. Remember, you only want this deal, you do not need this deal.

History and experience should tell each and every one of us, time and time again, that having wealth and/or power as the aim in life will destroy any individual (and many other people, in some instances).

It is absolutely imperative that you as a negotiator understand the importance of this point. You do NOT need this deal, because to be needy is to lose control and make bad decisions.

neediness can have—will have—a dramatic, always negative effect on their behavior. You must overcome any neediness at the negotiating table.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Anyone can rejigger an atom bomb," said Hopkins. "But to possess the minds of millions? To make them your willing zombies across a whole decade? That's real magic.

We're going six thousand miles an hour around the sun and nobody's driving this bitch!" said Gary Busey from the woods, where, for his own reasons, he was halfway up an eighty-foot pine tree.