Quotes about Power

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling

As long as a database exists, it's potentially accessible by the state.

Eli Pariser

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

James Freeman Clarke

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Agatha Christie

Who controls the past, [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dalberg-Acton

If knowledge is power, then asymmetries in knowledge are asymmetries in power.

Eli Pariser

Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior.

George Gerbner

Whoever fights monsters should see that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

The power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power.

Bono

The biggest disease of all is not a disease. It's corruption. But there's a vaccine for that too. It's called transparency.

Bono