Robin Morgan Quotes

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

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.

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

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Knowledge is power.

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?

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

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Dictators are as scared of books as they are of cannon.

A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both ... And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

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

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

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Information is control.

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.