Despotism Quote by Calvin Coolidge

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is…

— Calvin Coolidge

Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible,…

— Albert Einstein

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

— Bruce Coville

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can…

— Tom Clancy

When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs,…

— Richard M. Nixon

If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?

— Arthur Curley

“Information has always been power, now it is also wealth. Nonmaterial and, with the aid of modern technology, extremely mobile, information can escape government…

— Walter B. Wriston

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who…

— Seth Godin

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

— Tom Clancy

“This is only the beginning of a huge “Copernican revolution” (to borrow a phrase from Matthew Taylor, one of Tony Blair’s advisers) that is…

— John Micklethwait

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

— Nelson Mandela

For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your…

— Clifford Stoll