Power & Society Sayings

If you are scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

The Analytical Engine is the only thing that will ever be able to do justice to the great and complicated calculations of the universe.

We must conquer space or we will perish.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I could not find in all the shops in London a glass bubble strong enough to resist the pressure of the air when exhausted.

It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Life insists on being my friend and my enemy.

Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, capture his specific possessions, enjoy his grief, and use his women and horses.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I can't sleep, and I haven't slept, for I am thinking of the poor fellows who are to die tomorrow.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I think that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I'm always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.