Huey Newton Quotes

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

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

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

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

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

Power may be defined as the production of intended effects

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

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.

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

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

He who feeds you, controls you

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.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

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

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

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

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.