Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
“Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes,… — Charlie Kimball Copy Share Image
We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Clean Power Plan will significantly boost clean energy as a share of the United States' energy mix and give states increased… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense,… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth,… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump,… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
Activists need to educate themselves about the power of crypto currencies like Bitcoin, invented in 2009, and use crypto to leverage the… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
“Most believe that the key to influence is communication—getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will find that your… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that's… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the… — John Banville Copy Share Image
In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
I would love to do the whole 'Anonymous General Manager' storyline again. The way it was supposed to turn out was that… — Hornswoggle Copy Share Image
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Tim Pigott-Smith once told me to never get off the carousel, i.e., just keep working. It's much harder to get back on… — Harry Hadden-Paton Copy Share Image
A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Corporations and special interests have their voice in Congress, and they have too many members scared of their power. What Congress needs… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Power is concentrated. The general policy is exactly the way that Adam Smith described it: it's designed for the benefit of its… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few… — Garry Kilworth Copy Share Image
It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“It’s a common assumption that all power exchange-based relationships ‘should’ or ‘must’ involve punishment and/or discipline. The truth is a bit more… — Kynk 101 Copy Share Image
