Quotes About Power

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

Political freedom would mean liberation of the individuals from politics over which they have no effective control. Similarly

The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before– which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

La libera elezione di padroni e schiavi, non elimina né i padroni né gli schiavi" Herbert Marcuse "L'uomo a una dimensione

Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory. Remembrance is a mode of dissociation from the given facts, a mode of "mediation" which breaks, for short moments, the omnipresent power of the given facts. Memory recalls the terror and the hope that passed. Both come to life again, but whereas in reality, the former recurs in ever new forms, the latter remains hope.

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Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

La rationalité technologique de l'univers totalitaire est la forme la plus récente qu'a pu prendre l'idée de Raison.

For the Enemy is permanent. He is not in the emergency situation but in the normal state of affairs. He threatens in peace as much as in war (and perhaps more than in war); he is thus being built into the system as a cohesive power.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.

Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Government is essentially immoral.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Men are not rational beings, as commonly supposed. A man is a bundle of instincts, feelings, sentiments, which severally seek their gratification, and those which are in power get hold of reason and use it to their own ends, and exclude all other sentiments and feelings from power.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Wer seinem Volk Angst macht, der braucht es [...] nicht zu fürchten.

Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten.

Wo ein Klima der Ãœberwachung und Bespitzelung herrscht, kann ein freier und offener demokratischer Prozess nicht stattfinden.