Quotes About Power

Knowledge is a tool and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user

Cuando se produce un choque entre dos culturas, el perdedor es erradicado y el vencedor escribe los libros de historia, libros que cantan las glorias de su causa y denigran al enemigo conquistado.

For a thousand years," Langdon continued, "legends of this secret have been passed on. The entire collection of documents, its power, and the secret it reveals have become known by a single name—Sangreal.

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Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

It was all about power,' Teabing continued. 'Christ as Messiah was critical to the functioning of Church and state. Many scholars claim that the early Church literally stole Jesus from His original followers, hijacking His human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak of divinity, and using it to expand their own power. I've written several books on the topic.

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics—the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding.

As we move into an undefined tomorrow," Edmond said, "we will transform ourselves into something greater than we can yet imagine, with powers beyond our wildest dreams. And as we do, may we never forget the wisdom of Churchill, who warned us: 'The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

El miedo incapacita con mayor rapidez que ningún instrumento de guerra.

El miedo mutila con más rapidez que cualquier arma de guerra

The mind had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction.

El enemigo más peligroso es el que nadie teme.

Fie ca filosofiile noastre sa tina pasul cu tehnologia. Fie ca intelegerea si compasunea noastra sa tina pasul cu puterea pe care o dobandim. Si fie ca dragostea, nu frica, sa fie motorul schimbarii noastre.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.

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Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?

The price of greatness…is responsibility.' " The words resonated for Langdon, who often feared the human race would not be responsible enough to wield the intoxicating tools it was now inventing.

Silenzio! Será mejor que escuche. Durante dos milenios su Iglesia ha dominado la búsqueda de la verdad. Ha aplastado a sus opositores con mentiras y profecías funestas. Ha manipulado la verdad según sus necesidades y asesinado a quienes descubrían cosas que no convenían a su política. ¿Le sorprende acaso ser el objetivo de hombres ilustrados de todo el globo?

And history has proven repeatedly that lunatics will rise to power again and again on tidal waves of aggressive nationalism and intolerance, even in places where it seems utterly incomprehensible

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

i don't get it, who will guard the guards ?? -Yeah if we are the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous ?

It takes only one powerful dark soul to wreak havoc in the world by inspiring spiritual intolerance, nationalism, or loathing in the minds of the vulnerable.

Churchill: "El precio de la grandeza…es la responsabilidad".