Power & Society Sayings

508 sayings found from 508 authors

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

— Stephen Hawking 1992
Power & Leadership

I have been trying to invent a demon who could violate the second law of thermodynamics, but he keeps getting drunk on entropy.

— James Clerk Maxwell 1867
Justice & Rights

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

— Alexander Fleming 1929
Power & Leadership

The fight against cholera is a fight against ignorance and prejudice.

— Robert Koch 1884
War & Conflict

I have often wished that I had more time to devote to my favourite studies.

— Edward Jenner c. 1800
Political

It's a pity that scientific recognition often comes with so much struggle and politics.

— Rosalind Franklin c. 1950s
Political

People say, 'What about the poor people?' I say, 'They're not going to be any poorer.'

— James Watson Unspecified
Money & Business

One of the most striking features of the universe is that it is so empty.

— Francis Crick 1981
Power & Leadership

But al be that he was a philosophre, / Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
Money & Business

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

— Tim Berners-Lee 1997
Power & Leadership

If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal.

— Euclid c. 300 BCE
Justice & Rights

The future will judge my work more fairly than the present.

— Gregor Mendel 1870s
Justice & Rights

Nature can be conquered if we can but find her weak side.

— James Watt 1770s
War & Conflict

The atomic bomb is a terrible weapon. But it is also a symbol of hope.

— Robert Oppenheimer Unknown
War & Conflict

We may be living in a world where the future is already written, but we still have the power to change it.

— Enrico Fermi Unknown
Power & Leadership

I don't think there's anything wrong with taking a lot of vitamin C.

— Linus Pauling 1970s-1980s
Power & Leadership

The universe is a machine for the making of gods.

— Carl Sagan Unknown
Power & Leadership

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

— William Wordsworth 1802
Power & Leadership

Democracy will not come Today, this year, nor ever Through compromise and fear.

— Langston Hughes 1949
Political

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

— James Baldwin 1972
War & Conflict
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