Quotes About Power

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

Hitler ran through his past achievements, concluding that 'the moment is favourable now'. Never one to be bashful about his own feats, he said, 'As a last factor I must in all modesty name my own person irreplaceable . . . I am convinced of my powers of intellect and decision.

Fear binds people together in a way that cannot be achieved by other means. Those who would convert the people back to the old ways need fear, need something that will drive

Is not a book of more value than metal?' asked Cumscrad. 'It is the fruit of a person's brain and contains knowledge and ideas; it has power greater than gold because knowledge and ideas can change people.

Man has responsibility, not power.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Prostitution' similarly denotes a fall from grace, a failure to live up to expectations of productivity and chastity by women. All these, then, are images used mainly for young people, and their power lies in their association with failure.

War is too important to be left to the generals.

I'm insignificant?" Geoff said, standing up from his rock. "I don't matter?" ... You see, because most people have an influence on the course of history, we can't ask them to do this job becasue we'd be interfering with the past. You, however, are so insignificant, that even if I were to kill you on the spot, history would remain completely unchanged.

What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?

Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes.

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.

Hell, rationality itself—the exalted Human ability to reason—hadn't evolved in the pursuit of truth but simply to win arguments, to gain control: to bend others, by means logical or sophistic, to your will.

The smallest multicorp killed more people than all the sex killers who ever lived, for a fucking profit margin—and the WTO gave them awards for it.

The difference between Science and Faith, therefore, is no more and no less than predictive power. Scientific insights have proven to be better predictors than Spiritual ones, at least in worldly matters; they prevail not because they are true, but simply because they work.

if you're smart enough to do the job, you're too smart to trust with the controls.

How do you know? Maybe you're just out of the loop, maybe those orthogonal stealthnets are running you the way you think you're running Rakshi. You think everyone on the planet's a puppet except for Colonel Jim Moore?

I'll kill you if I can." "I'll save you," it said. "If you let me.

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force on all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives. There have always been those tasked with the rotation of informational topologies, but throughout most of history they had little to do with increasing its clarity.