Quotes About Power

People believe what they want to believe. They also believe what people in leadership tell them.

Strident voices everywhere were fighting to be heard, and just as it so often happened in the past, the voices that shouted the loudest were the ones heard best. The voices that fed on fear and prejudices drowned out all else.

In the sixties, a power struggle started which still hasn't been won.

Modul în care adul?ii î?i folosesc puterea sau influen?a depinde în mare m?sur? de ceea ce au înv??at în familie, pe când erau copii.

To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.

Me hace gracia, desde entonces, escuchar como los hombres disertan sobre la estupidez de las mujeres que adoran el poder, el dinero o la fama, como si adorar un liguero fuera menos estúpido...

Resulta asombroso y, como poco, moderno, que sea un dominante el que venga a quejarse de que el dominado no pone bastante de su parte…

Men love other men. They are always explaining how much they love women, but we all know they're fibbing. They love each other... They watch each other on the cinema screen, give themselves great roles, think themselves powerful, boast, and can't get enough of being so strong, so brave, and so handsome. They write for each other, congratulate each other, support each other.

When the collective unconscious -- via instruments of power such as the media and the entertainment industry -- overestimates motherhood, it is neither out of love for the feminine nor general kindness. The all-virtuous mother prepares the collective body for fascist regression. Power bestowed by a sick state is suspect by nature.

Rape is a well-defined political strategy: the bare bones of capitalism, it is the crude and blunt representation of the exercise of power. It designates a ruler, and organizes the rules of the game to allow him to wield his power without restraint.

Jedyna ró?nica miÄ™dzy psychopatÄ… i politykiem - psychopata olewa to, czy stoi po wÅ'aÅ›ciwej stronie. Zabija bez wstÄ™pnych ceregieli, to znaczy nie tracÄ…c czasu na sprowadzanie swojej ofiary do roli potwora. Natomiast politycy robiÄ… to z zachowaniem reguÅ': najpierw propaganda, dopiero potem jatka.

Seduction is within the reach of most young women, as long as they agree to play the game, because it mostly consists of reassuring men about their virility by playing the femininity game.

Women] are not even foreigners but we are constantly subtitled, because we don't know what we have to say. Or at least not as well as the dominant male, who has for centuries been writing books on the question of femininity and its implications.

After several years of genuine, sincere, and rigorous research, I have come to the conclusion that femininity is the same thing as bootlicking. The art of servility. You can call it seduction to make it sound glamorous. But it is very rarely a skilled sport. For the majority of women, it's the simple habit of behaving as an inferior.

En realidad, las normas no cambian, siempre se trata de quién se carga al otro primero. Solo que esta vez estuvimos en el buen lado del cañón. La diferencia es considerable.

La confiscación del cuerpo de las mujeres se produce al mismo tiempo que la confiscación del cuerpo de los hombres. Los únicos que salen ganando en este negocio son los dirigentes.

El capitalismo es una religión igualitarista, puesto que nos somete a todos y nos lleva a todos a sentirnos atrapados, como lo están todas las mujeres.

You still often hear people say, "Prostitutes reduce the number of rapes," as if males couldn't control themselves, as if they had to unload themselves somewhere. They would have us believe this is a natural -- instinctual -- fact and not the created political belief it is.

Qué se imaginarán los tíos que esconden las chicas para querer siempre verlas por todas partes?

What women do with their bodies as long as they're around men with power and money actually seems to me very near to prostitution. I still don't catch the subtle difference between the sort of femininity sold in magazines and that of the whore.

Comprendre les mécaniques de notre infériorisation, et comment nous sommes amenées à en être le meilleurs vigiles, c'est comprendre les mécaniques de contrôle de toute la population. Le capitalisme est une religion égalitariste, en ce sens qu'elle nous soumet tous, et amène chacun à se sentir piégé, comme le sont toutes les femmes.

Es la posibilidad de la muerte, la proximidad de la muerte, la sumisión al odio deshumanizado de los otros, que hace que esa noche sea imborrable. Para mí, la violación posee ante todo esa particularidad:

C'est quand même épatant, et pour le moins moderne, un dominant qui vient chialer que le dominé n'y met pas assez du sien...

Rape doesn't disturb the peace, it's already part and parcel of the city.