Adam Roberts - Power Quotes

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Eva is perfectly content with her academic research, said Diana. She just isn't interested in power. As I say those sentences, she added, clasping her knees to her chest, I can tell they're both wrong. Aren't they? Of course she's interested in power.
She's a human being, agreed Iago.

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It's not right. A human being is a human being. A human being is not a toy.
We cannot help but use the people below us as a resource, my love, said her two MOHmies, as one. That is what it means to be in power. Your choice is to relinquish power forever, or to accept that and use people for good....
If we are powerful, sang her MOHmies, we can make things better, but we are made unclean by the fact that we have power. If we are powerless we remain clean, but we cannot make things better.

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But once we are free... once we have evolved beyond the old medieval power structures and the medieval internecine violence they create, then we'll be able to use the technology responsibly. Everything depends on that.

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I shouldn't be naive Diana said. Of course, realising its destructive power only makes them want it more. Of course. Even more than great wealth, power craves technologies of destruction. Good to be wealthy, but better to remain in power—and the more awe-inspiring the weaponry at your disposal, the better able you are to do that.

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