“We are God’s dissidents every time we respond in offices, in communities, in churches, in schools, and in any areas of abuse. We do this as a part of systems, many of them with good and godly aims. We must not go to sleep. We must watch. We must not assume that our family, church, community, country, or organization is always right just because the people in it use the right words. We must never agree to “protect” the name of God by covering ungodliness. In Ephesians 5:11, Paul warns us not to participate in the deeds of darkness but instead to expose them. Understand that you cannot singlehandedly change an entire system; you are not called to do so. Yet we are to speak truth about our systems. This is difficult to do and sometimes quite risky. Just ask Martin Luther King Jr. Ask Martin Luther himself. Ask those in the #MeToo movement. When systems change, it is often little by little and usually at great cost. When you feel overwhelmed, remember this: people are sacred, created in the image of God. Systems are not. They are only worth the people in them and the people they serve. And people are to be treated, whether one or many, the way Jesus Christ treated people.”
“There are things that u can’t say or joke about as a leader and this is not about not being your self, it’s about understanding your position as a representative. What you do and say eats on your rating points. Understanding of your supporting structure is the key and it’s necessary to understand every little pillar and it’s building blocks. Remember that Power is toxic, u can’t taste it and remain the same .”
“We knew that in spite of daily mounting risks we had no choice but to move forward. This was evil s hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God s power alone be free to work.”
“Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too terrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible, too in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done.”
“Among the means of power that now prevail is the power to manage and to manipulate the consent of men. That we do not know the limits of such power—and that we hope it does have limits—does not remove the fact that much power today is successfully employed without the sanction of the reason or the conscience of the obedient.”
“50 Cent is a master player at power, a kind of hip-hop Napoleon Bonaparte.”
“Her focus was on the king. You sit up in your castle, worrying about nothing! Nothing but yourself and you should be ashamed. You lie to this kingdom,”
“If you let lesser people determine your self-worth, you ll never reach higher than their limited imagination.”
“Power and recklessness are a dangerous combination.”
“You will be ensuring slavery and death for Grisha everywhere,” Inej said. Van Eck raised a brow. “How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.” “When profit shifts,” Jesper shot back. Van Eck’s expression was bemused. “Aren’t they one and the same?”
“Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
“As the power of the common person declined, the power of the Big Tech overclass multiplied: power over attention, over time, over users’ judgment, and soon power over their speech.”
“In the great Age of Tech, journalism was clickbait, and Big Tech controlled the clicks.”
“Big Tech was the culmination of the corporate liberal ideology and the globalized economy it envisioned. This was an economy that by the early twenty-first century depended less and less on producing anything tangible, or on producers themselves, for that matter, but lavished ever greater rewards on the rarified, highly educated, largely urban technologist class.”
“That’s the thing about plutocrats: once they seize the power, they tend to keep it.”
“Big Tech’s handouts from Big Government made the tech class what it is.”
“We must free ordinary Americans from the constant surveillance and manipulation of the tech giants.”