Penny Lernoux Quotes

I want to ultimately own the world.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Ideals are the world's masters.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

What rules the world is ideas.

Organization, not machine. Get that. Organization, not machine.

Structure is not about moving boxes around on a chart. Structure is about power.

Invisible Empire

I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

The world's always been run by women.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

I'm going to take over the world. Everyone watch out, you're in big trouble.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Authority and example lead the world.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.