Quotes About Power

Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services

Historically, Yemen, when not being invaded or colonized by outside powers, from the Ottomans to the British, was fighting itself.

something about how all this could or would lead to totalitarianism. Her stomach sank.

don't presume the benevolence of your leaders.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything. You can control most of what anyone sees and knows. If you want to bury some piece of information, permanently, that's two seconds' work. If you want to ruin anyone, that's five minutes' work.

Young men, come and blow things up.

A circle is the strongest shape in the universe. Nothing can beat it, nothing can improve upon it, nothing can be more perfect.

Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.

But something about his inability to give in, to admit defeat, or to at least acknowledge the incredible power of the technology at Mae's command Ã¢â'¬Â¦ she knew she couldn't give up until she had received some sense of his acquiescence.

Does it seem like a good idea to you that a private company would control the flow of all information?

Capitalist Prime

Now we're all God. Every one of us will soon be able to see, and cast judgement upon, every other. We'll see what He sees. We'll articulate His judgement. We'll channel His wrath and deliver His forgiveness. On a constant and global level.

For years there was this happy time when those controlling the major internet conduits were actually decent enough people. Or at least they weren't predatory and vengeful.

How is freedom exercised?" ... "Willfully, Irregularly. Through refutation of the custom. The breaking of patterns. Being unseen. Solitude. Social indifference. Fighting ill-wrought power. Irreverence for authority. Moving without limit or schedule through the day and the world. Choosing when to participate and when to withdraw.

Die Lage ist kritisch, und du bist in der einzigartigen Position, Einfluss auf sehr bedeutsame historische Ereignisse zu nehmen. Der Moment ist da. Der Moment, an dem geschichtliche Weichen gestellt werden. Stell dir vor, du hättest etwas tun können, ehe Hitler Kanzler wurde. Ehe Stalin Osteuropa annektierte. Wir sind drauf und dran, ein weiteres sehr hungriges, sehr böses Reich zu erschaffen, Mae. Verstehst du das?

No one has a plan for anything. I guess that's the crushing thing, the thing that drives us all crazy. We all think there must be someone very smart at the controls, spending the money, making plans for our schools, parks, everything. But then it's guys like you, who are just guys like me. No one has a fucking clue.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

We've sent over 180 million frowns from the U.S alone, and you can bet that has an effect on the regime.

If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.

As already noted, Of eighty popes in a line from the thirteenth century on not one of them disapproved of the theology and apparatus of the Inquisition. On the contrary, one after another added his own cruel touches to the workings of this deadly machine.

The popes themselves were the authority behind the Inquisitions. They wielded the power of life and death even over emperors. Had any pope opposed the Inquisition, he could have stopped it during his papacy at least. Where do we read that the popes thundered anathemas against the secular authorities who imposed so many and such gruesome deaths upon their victims? Never! Civil

The Modus Operandi When the inquisitors swept into a town an Edict of Faith was issued requiring everyone to reveal any heresy of which they had knowledge. Those who concealed a heretic came under the curse of the Church and the inquisitors' wrath. Informants would approach the inquisitors' lodgings under cover of night and were rewarded for information. No one arrested was ever acquitted.

This is because self-reliance is one of the things authoritarians try to take away first.

Do white supremacists exist? Yes. Do black, Jew, and Hispanic haters exist? Yes. But are these people fringe and irrelevant? Hell yeah. They have no institutional power. And that's exactly how it should be.