Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.
Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all revolutionaries who critiqued and a...
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and tum. They a...
In The Bloudy Tenent, Williams points out that Constantine "did more to hurt Christ Jesus than the raging fury of the most bloody Neroes." at least under the Christian persecutor Nero, who was rumored to have had the Apostle Paul beheaded and Saint P...
A powerful man has big ears.
Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.
It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.
The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.
