Quotes About Power

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

La politique n'est pas, comme on veut absolument le faire croire, l'art de conduire l'opinion publique, mais bien la façon dont les chefs s'inclinent en esclaves devant les courants qu'eux-mêmes ont créés et orientés.

Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

It does not matter how many people chose moral duty over the rationality of self-preservation, what does matter is that some did. Evil is not all-powerful. It can be resisted. The testimony of the few who did resist shatters the authority of the logic of self-preservation. It shows it for what it is in the end: a choice.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

This is stability at the cost of dependence ? because the primary cause of 'voluntary servitude', i.e. submission to power, even if it's not required – according to Étienne de la Boétie – is simply a habit.5