#power

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. ↗

— James Bovard

#dangerous #definition #friends #our #over

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams. ↗

— David R. Brower

#atom #away #beautiful #could #dam

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. ↗

— David Brin

#democracy #empowered #knowledgeable #only #perform

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#late #later #makes #manpower #project

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ↗

— Andrew Brown

#big #complete #internet #life #people

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. ↗

— Robert Caro

#enough #guy #power #see #then

The greatest power is often simple patience. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#greatest #often #patience #simple

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#economic #economic strength #foundation #power #productive

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

#displaying #exertion #inward #itself #knowledge