Seth Godin Quotes

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

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

Information is control.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

Knowledge is a form of power and most institutions exhibit an understandable reluctance to dissipate this power in the absence of compensating advantages

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

Information is power. --Humfrey

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 neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Knowledge is power.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.