Civilizations do not collapse because the citizenry are corrupt or lazy or anti-intellectual. These people do not have the power and influence to either lead or destroy. Civilizations collapse when those who have power fail to do their jobs.
Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
I'm from Downer's Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there the other day, but fortunately the police made him get back into his car before he got too far.
I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.
Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.
Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen.
Now my charms are all o'erthrown.
In many parts of Mindanao, brownouts are a frequent occurrence.
Pity the powerful who are tested by history and fail.
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
