F. Gonzalez-Crussi Quotes

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

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

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

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

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

You are afraid of the one, I, of the few.... You are apprehensive of monarchy, I, of aristocracy.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

Action requires co-operation, but in general if you set your face against custom, people will set their faces against you. They cannot tell whether you are right or wrong, but they know that you are guilty of a pragmatical assumption of superiority over them which they do not like.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.