Quotes About Power

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

Fusion will be ready when society needs it.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.