Information Power Quotes

Ever since Gutenberg, every dynasty, every political leader, every major religion, has recognized that to control the media is to have a powerful instrument for controlling the values and behavior of a population.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

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.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

There is no democracy of facts.

Information is power. Particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

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

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.