Susan Faludi Quotes

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment.

Culture follows power.

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.