Robert Frost Quotes

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

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.

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.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

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.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

All governments, without exception, are stable only insofar as they can effectively reward and punish.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being.

Power is being able to affect the hegemony of existing systems.

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

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

Oppression is the essence of power.

As men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

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

People who are divided are easier to control.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

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

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

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

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

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