“In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.”

— Paul A. Baran

Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter Eight, The Steep Ascent, p. 299

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American Marxist economist 1909–1964

J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism

Preface to the Revised Edition (October, 1906)
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)

“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”

Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician

Lecture 1
Lectures on Education (1855)

“In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.”

Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American minister

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 307.

“There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations”

Michel Foucault book Discipline and Punish

Discipline and Punish (1977)
Source: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.”

Charles de Lint (1951) author

“The Pochade Box”, p. 318
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“The great object of all knowledge is to enlarge and purify the soul”

Edward Everett (1794–1865) American politician, orator, statesman

"The Uses of Astronomy" (28 July 1856) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16227.
Context: The great object of all knowledge is to enlarge and purify the soul, to fill the mind with noble contemplations, to furnish a refined pleasure, and to lead our feeble reason from the works of nature up to its great Author and Sustainer. Considering this as the ultimate end of science, no branch of it can surely claim precedence of Astronomy. No other science furnishes such a palpable embodiment of the abstractions which lie at the foundation of our intellectual system; the great ideas of time, and space, and extension, and magnitude, and number, and motion, and power. How grand the conception of the ages on ages required for several of the secular equations of the solar system; of distances from which the light of a fixed star would not reach us in twenty millions of years, of magnitudes compared with which the earth is but a foot-ball; of starry hosts—suns like our own—numberless as the sands on the shore; of worlds and systems shooting through the infinite spaces