“Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
aphorism used in mRIF http://monochrom.at/mrif
“Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
“We can denounce not merely the abuses of power but power itself.”
Jacques Ellul book Anarchy and Christianity
Source: Anarchy and Christianity (1988), p. 23
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
“The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Speech in the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 2 December 1829, The Writings of James Madison: 1819-1836 (1910), ed. Galliard Hunt, p. 361
1820s
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 282.
“The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
Review of Aiken’s Life of Addison (1843)
“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.”
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
"Circular to the States" (8 June 1783) http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch7s5.html <br class="br">1780s