Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

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.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

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

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

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

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

Power is founded upon opinion.

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

He who feeds you, controls you

The object of power is power.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.

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

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.

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 most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

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

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I make people step over the ant trail.

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.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.