- Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
- Jonathan Sacks on Power
- Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
- Marc Andreessen on Power
- That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein on Power
- That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
- Dee Dee Myers on Power
- The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
- Neil Young on Power
- The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
- Noam Chomsky on Power
- The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
- Toni Morrison on Power
- The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
- David Ogilvy on Power
- The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Theodor Adorno on Power
- The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
- Spiro T. Agnew on Power
- The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
- Paul Wellstone on Power
- The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Power
- The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
- John Podhoretz on Power
- The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
- Jon Meacham on Power
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein on Power
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
- David Bailey on Power
- The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
- Pearl S. Buck on Power
- The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
- George W. Bush on Power
- The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
- Lewis Mumford on Power
- The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
- Benjamin Spock on Power
- The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
- John Podhoretz on Power
- The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
- Jeff Goodell on Power
- The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
- The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
- George Washington on Power
- The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
- Thomas Jefferson on Power
- The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
- Daniel Webster on Power
- 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.
- Tom Clancy on Power
- The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
- Kenny Loggins on Power
- The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
- Franklin Pierce on Power
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon on Power
- The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
- John Maynard Keynes on Power
- The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.
- The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
- Alfred Adler on Power
- The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison on Power
- The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
- Mark Hopkins on Power
- The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
- Vaclav Havel on Power
- The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle on Power
- The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
- Rick Perry on Power
- The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
- Henry Hazlitt on Power
- The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
- Daniel J. Boorstin on Power
- The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
- Charles Hodge on Power
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- Bertrand Russell on Power
- The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
- John Stuart Mill on Power
- The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
- Theodor Adorno on Power
- The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
- M. Scott Peck on Power
- The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
- Andrew Jackson on Power
- The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
- Meryl Streep on Power
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- Edmund Burke on Power
- The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
- Leo Tolstoy on Power
- The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
- Walter Annenberg on Power
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