Quotes About Power

Christmas was about understanding that servanthood would win the hearts of men for eternity, where raw power might win them only for a moment, if at all.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

How I choose to look at any situation will greatly affect whether I have the power to change it or make matters worse.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.

The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

Speak from the balls, not from the diaphram.

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just... wishing. And wishes don't come true.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.