Kanye West Quotes

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

Don’t you shit me George. You and I know who has the power in Alabama.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.