Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

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

Our party is divided into those who sit and those who are sat upon.

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

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

The exclusive owners of property ever have been, ever will, and perhaps ever ought to be the virtual rulers of mankind

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

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.

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

I think the first time 'white' was used was in the 1600s. Generally, we were described by where we came from... All of a sudden, this word 'white' came through, and now everyone is going for their own sense of power... to figure out who's on top.

The whole conversation of my work has to do with power and who has it.

I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.

There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.