Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.
The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.
Differences of power are always manifested in asymmetrical access. The President of the United States has access to almost everybody for almost anything he might want of them, and almost nobody has access to him. The super-rich have access to almost everybody; almost nobody has access to them. ... The creation and manipulation of power is constituted of the manipulation and control of access.
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.
Power's twin is responsibility.
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.
We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.
The party out of office becomes the articulate one.
Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.
The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.
Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.
Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.
It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterredby such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.
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