Will Durant

Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. (Will Durant)

What is Power

In the last edition of Newsweek, Jon Meacham, describes power as:

In the popular imagination, power tends to be viewed in one of two ways, both extreme. The first is totemic and tactical (how to get ahead at the office, to win friends and influence people). The other is epic and amorphous (the fate of markets, of vast global events and forces that seem beyond anyone's control, but especially yours).

The magazine is reporting 50 most powerful people in the world. Read the rest of story here.

Mahdi el Mandjra

Vocal voice from Morocco. He is best known as a futurulog. He urges fundamental change in Arab-Islamic countries before losing time and paying so high price. He called hegemony that most powerfull country practices right now as 'mega imperialism'. The third world must aware this fact to give appropriate treatment to end the imperialism. He can be reached at his site here

Noam Chomsky

He proves the power of knowledge. President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, in latest UN general council meeting, recommended Chomsky's book: "Hegemony or Survival; America's Quest for Global Dominance" in order to understand US hegemony in present international relation.

According to Wikipedia, this book "examines the doctrinal thinking of the Establishment in the United Kingdom and the US, such as in regard to propaganda use, centralised decision making and imperialism of Western powers from recent American invasions to the European empires".

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault, in Frech literature, is known as prominent thinker of the ralation between knowledge and power. He wrote book entitled: arceologie du savoir. I quote Wikipidea: " Foucault's work on power, and the relationships among power, knowledge, and discourse, has been widely discussed and applied.".

prolog

beside of political power, there is knowledge power....