Quotes About Power

He was little more than a hammer with which to beat people over the head, an instrument for

The pace of growth goes on increasing and in the end it escapes our control.

is deeply sad when we use the greatest being of all as an instrument for our own smallness.

El que vigila al pueblo acaba siendo vigilado por el pueblo. Hay una fundamental lógica democrática en ello»

If joy could express itself with the same force as pain,

I saw her eyes and then it no longer mattered how neat and tidy she looked. What I saw was lethal. Her eyes were jet black.

silence and calm are more intimidating than any outburst,

You either have a useful contribution to make or you don't, regardless of whether you're head of the office or the emperor of China.

So the very instant we create a superintelligence we lose control, is that right?" "The risk is that everything we know about the world will cease to be relevant, and it'll be the end of human existence.

Killing the world with lies. Giving the leaders The power to paralyze Feeding the murderers with hate, Amputate, devastate, congratulate. But never, never Apologize.

If joy could express itself with the same force as pain," he said.

Of course people resented those who exude such boundless energy. They make the rest of us feel small and feeble in comparison.

If you can afford a strong defence you can get away with whatever you want these days.

With a gang of sharp lawyers you can safely steal whatever you like. Lawyers are the hit men of our times.

The astonishing saga of the code breakers is really an example of the power of mathematics. Hardy's "clean and gentle" science, as it turned out, was stronger than the entire German war machine, which, for all its posturing, ended up being trumped by a group of geeky mathematicians and engineers working out their ideas on paper and fitting electrical switches inside ugly-looking machines.

Lo que más me aterra en este mundo —le dice Neil a Wayne— es la posibilidad de que le destroces la vida a alguien sin tú saberlo. O incluso de que le cambies la vida. Detesto pensar que uno puede tener ese poder, yo sería una madre deplorable.

You're lucky. You've got money—enough money to rescue, and to choose who you rescue—and you want the satisfaction of exercising that power. And yet there's another side to it. There's my admitting, my having to admit, that if I'd led a better, more orderly life, I wouldn't be in this position

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

You have Kim Jong Il, and you have his brother, Menta Lee Il.

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Who knows what any man can do?

Now I no longer believed that one man or even one group of men were responsible. There were too many connections, too many avenues of villainy. Too many men had too much power and knowledge, but none could be made to answer for their crimes because they hid themselves in endless mazes of deceit and fiction.