Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

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

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

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 power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

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

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

The possession of knowledge has always been dangerous.

All men are animals; princes are animals whom no one has tied up.

No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.

I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

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.

Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.

There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.

My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.