Carter G. Woodson Quotes

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

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

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

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

Why do you all push us around?

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

People who are divided are easier to control.

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

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

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

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

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

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.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.