Quotes About Power

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

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Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, y si no el mundo se detendría. Todo permanecería flotando en una vacilación global y continua.