Leonard Garment Quotes

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

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

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

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

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

This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

Culture follows power.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

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

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

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

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

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.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

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

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Hegemony mean[t] that [Athens] organized and directed their combined efforts without securing permanent political power over the other[s].

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

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

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

We lead them to believe that we are in complete control over every aspect of their lives.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.