Virtual Power

Famous quotes containing the words virtual and/or power:

“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary.... He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

“My most desire my hand may reach,
My will is alway at my hand;
Me need not long for to beseech
Her that hath power me to command.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)