Quotes About Power

Power to the people was a romantic lie," he later said. "Computers did more than politics did to change society.

All he did was blow a lousy few million and they took his company away from him." Now, Sculley reflected, he was taking Jobs's company away from him.

Jobs flew down to have lunch with Eisner, who was stunned at his audacity. They had a three-picture deal, and Pixar had made only one. Each side had its own nuclear weapons.

Deep Blue ganó aquel torneo de ajedrez por la fuerza bruta, ya que era capaz de evaluar 200 millones de posiciones por segundo y compararlas con 700.000 jugadas

The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn't love him—the United States government," Einstein said.

Why would a person whose notebook aphorisms decry killing and whose personal morality led him to be a vegetarian go to work for the most brutal murderer of the era? Partly this choice reflects Leonardo's pragmatism. In a land where the Medici, Sforzas, and Borgias jostled for power, Leonardo was able to time his patronage affiliations well and know when to move on. But there is more. Even as he remained aloof from most current events, he seemed to be attracted to power.

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to the difference personalities make.

Whenever peace – conceived as the avoidance of war – has been the primary objective of a power or a group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community. Whenever the international order has acknowledged that certain principles could not be compromised even for the sake of peace, stability based on an equilibrium of forces was at least conceivable.

As a master of the relationship between power and diplomacy, Franklin knew that it would be impossible to win at the negotiating table what was unwinnable on the battlefield.

Each period is dominated by a mood, with the result that most men fail to see the tyrant who rules over them.

Para castigarme por mi desprecio a la autoridad, el Destino me ha convertido en autoridad a mí mismo.

Among Republicans, we trailed only the military and local police; among Democrats, we were at the top, leading every branch of government, universities, and the press.

We now have the power to control our genetic future, which is awesome and terrifying.

Orwell conjures up an Orwellian world

Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis, he snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants.

Kissinger once said of Israel's Moshe Dayan that he was "a brilliant manipulator of people and yet emotionally dependent on them.

He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants.

All true democrats must stand guard lest the old class tyranny of the Right be replaced by a new class tyranny of the Left

no "natural or religious reason [for] the distinction of men into kings and subjects.

If Acts is paradigmatic, it is not in the area of methods but of goals (the ends of the earth have still not been reached) and of power. The Holy Spirit continues what Jesus began to do, even today.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it is permissible to see, hear, read, and know, it is no wonder that moral judgment is so much more common than constructive thought.

When the Third Reich swallowed one Central European country after another, this was attributed to bluff and bluster.