Oscar Wilde Quotes

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.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Wild beasts hate nets, and people hate their superiors.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

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

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

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

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

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

There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

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

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

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.