Average Quote by Clay Shirky

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“The basic idea here is that for most people will power is a limited resource: if we spend lots of energy controlling our impulses…

— James Surowiecki

Any power, of course, depends upon the values of the person exercising the power.

— Mark Pellegrino

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

— Rafael Correa

I've explained before the power psychology has on the markets.

— Trish Regan

If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That…

— Frederick Lenz

When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us…

— Frederick Lenz

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

— Joseph Nye

If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case,…

— James Clerk Maxwell

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage…

— Mitra Farahani

The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.

— Alan Lightman

“The broader appeal of statistics lay in the idea of an order beneath apparent randomness. Individuals—molecules or humans—might act unpredictably, but statistics seemed to…

— Louis Menand