Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

The one who tells the stories rules.

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that we live in as well. Of course, I cannot control that world. I can just control the fictional world.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

I tried to control the narrative.

Owning media is power. That’s the way it is.

Only powerful people have liberty.

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts.

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

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

I've been exposed to a ton of 'Magneto' stories over the years, and they all influence me.

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

I want to tell stories of impact.

What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.