Quotes About Power

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic. —Benjamin Franklin

No hay razón para volverse introspectivo, haciendo de tus sentimientos un ídolo. Pídele al Espíritu Santo que te ayude a sacar a la luz y tomar el control de tus pensamientos. Ejercitemos la autoridad para romper el poder de los espíritus malignos.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

To own a slave was to have a license for libertine behavior, because sexual violation was intrinsic to slavery. The slaveowner had the full legal right to do with his property as he saw fit

mojo (moyo, a Kikongo word meaning something like "soul force").

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

things get worked through…or work themselves through, we probably don't have all that much to do with it. we like to think we do, though, right?

It all comes back to one thing... brutality. Compel people into a position where they have to use the brute that's in them in order to live and the brute will waken all right. When the brute is naturally strong in a man - that's the man who becomes the leader of the pressgang. And there you have it. Where all is compulsion and enforcement, it's the bully that rules.

What you own is your own kingdom / What you do is your own glory / What you love is your own power / What you live is your own story

Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way that Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible, and therefore irrelevant.

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship is not a necessity when all political discourse takes the form of a jest.

There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first—the Orwellian—culture becomes a prison. In the second—the Huxleyan—culture becomes a burlesque. No

It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power

As I write, the President of the United States is a former Hollywood movie actor.

In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

We may have reached the point where cosmetics has replaced ideology as the field of expertise over which a politician must have competent control.

I am constantly amazed at how obediently people accept explanations that begin with the words "The computer shows …" or "The computer has determined …" It is Technopoly's equivalent of the sentence "It is God's will," and the effect is roughly the same.

Politics, he tells him, is the greatest spectator sport in America. In 1966, Ronald Reagan used a different metaphor. "Politics," he said, "is just like show business."1 Although

In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

Large institutions such as the Pentagon, the Internal Revenue Service, and multinational corporations tell us that their decisions are made on the basis of solutions generated by computers, and this is usually good enough to put our minds at ease or, rather, to sleep. In any case, it constrains us from making complaints or accusations. In part for this reason, the computer has strengthened bureaucratic institutions and suppressed the impulse toward significant social change.