Alexander Volkanovski Quotes

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

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

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority—whether religious, racial, genetic, ethnic, cultural, or institutional—rather than an accident of timing or geography.

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

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

I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

The primary object of every elite, or ruling class, is to maintain its own power and privilege.

If you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

Our party is divided into those who sit and those who are sat upon.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

Whether the institution to be defended is slavery, political absolutism, or the absolutism of the head of a family, we are always expected to judge of it from its best instances; and we are presented with pictures of loving exercise of authority on one side, loving submission to it on the other

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.