Katherine Dunn Quotes

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

Whatever is the strongest power in society will obtain the governing authority; and a change in the political constitution cannot be durable unless preceded or accompanied by an altered distribution of power in society itself

The central factor in most human beings is power. Politics is the manifestation of the quest for power.

I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world - yet.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

To me, the movie is about power.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.