power

"The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks. ... But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. ... It is the …"

"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical…"

"My mind is appalled at the thought of a political party having control of all the details that go to make up the sum total of our lives. Think of it for an instant, that the party in power shall have …"

"Why did the Empire come into existence at all, and why, having come into existence, did it perish? ...Surely the character of the Roman played as great a part in the rise of the Empire as his characte…"

"No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoy…"

"If humans are to colonize another planet, we better have a powerful immune system to protect us from deadly new pathogens. H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds reminds us that the invading Martians…"

"She tended to keep her eyes half closed, as if full sight of the world’s absurdity might be too much to bear."

"That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go."

"In a public, as we may understand the term, virtually as many people express opinions as receive them, Public communications are so organised that there is a chance immediately and effectively to answ…"

"What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity."

"It is certainly a rule that the jury must find facts, and not merely evidence of facts."

"Foreign war is a very useful tool for manipulating the popular mind and keeping the domestic population under control. War is the easiest way to shift vast, unaccountable new powers to the State. Peop…"

"As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace sh…"

"The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management."

"The greatest danger against which most men have warned us is that which comes from communicating intellectual secrets to minds become subservient to the authority of an inveterate habit, for such is t…"

"A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth."

"Gods reappear in unlimited numbers in the guise of the simulators who have the power of life and death over the simulated realities that they bring into being. The simulators determine the laws, and c…"

"Hitler: Denial is a powerful thing... I always thought I could stop any time I wanted. "If I could just get Czechoslovakia, that'll be the end of it. I'll be happy then." And then I'd get it and think…"

"The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm."

"Their own strength has betrayed them. They have pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads."