Power Dynamics Quotes

"In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility" "History is written by the people" "I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they are running the asylum" "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." "Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions" "All oppression creates a state of war" "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral" "Never ask for anything. Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They will make the offer themselves and give everything themselves." "Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool." "Democracy in any meaningful sense of the term doesn't mean that citizens have the right to choose between two rich people who represent basically the same interests. " "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. " "There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible – the new normal." "Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him" "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few" "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule" "The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world." "The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout." "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem" "We control the world basically because we can cooperate better than any other animal"