Anita Hill Quotes

Oppression is the essence of power.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

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.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

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

The primary object of every elite, or ruling class, is to maintain its own power and privilege.

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

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

Only powerful people have liberty.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

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

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.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

All power is fast getting into the hands of the very lowest people.