#pow

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#create #ensure #face #figured #global

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#beginning #built #case #day #depended

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. ↗

— Tony Blair

#futile #government #i #lead #party

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. ↗

— Tony Blair

#i #our choice #power #say #surrender

The motive power of democracy is love. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#love #motive #power

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#acquired #commands #force #him #lasts

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. ↗

— William Blake

#formed #man #powers #sees #such

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#genius #powerful #sometimes

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #expense #fame #few #fruition