#owe

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#disconcerting #forget #goes #induce #last

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#among #analysis #anyone #clear #consciously

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#aware #because #destructive #environment #fragile

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#believe #gets #journalists #more #more and more

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#carter #change #during #editorial #ethics

Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#benefits #business #companies #driving #employees

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#attain #case #comparing #immense #light

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. ↗

— Ethel Watts Mumford

#know #knowledge #knowledge is power #person #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

#biological #chief #city #convert #creativity

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#about #flowers #joy #mad #must