It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. – James A. Baldwin
Not many people were speaking truth to power in the ’80s. I had a really good time doing it – I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It’s challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing ‘Democracy’ particularly. – Joan Didion
As content creators, we’re benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn’t do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power. – Jason Calacanis
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision. – John James Audubon
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. – James F. Byrnes
The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power. – James Bovard
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What’s lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing. – Joe Eszterhas
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. – John Charles Polanyi
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I’m anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience. – Joseph Barbera
There’s a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain. – Jon Favreau
In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet! – Joseph Smith, Jr.
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we’ll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. – Jason Silva
Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That’s the way it ought to be. – James Comey
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. – Iqbal Quadir
We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification. – James F. Byrnes
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. – James Lovelock
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. – John Ruskin
Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late! – Jane Siberry
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power. – John Podhoretz
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. – J. G. Ballard
The smart phone isn’t a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us. – John Battelle
America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible. – John Updike
Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets. – Judith Butler
