Frank Chodorov Quotes

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

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

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

One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick.

Oppression is the essence of power.

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

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

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.

Our politicians want to keep us in a negative state because they can easily manipulate us.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

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

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

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

Social control is best managed through fear.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

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

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.