Power Disparity Quotes

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

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

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.

The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

God is ordinarily for the big battalions against the little ones.

The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power -- we must have a dispersion of power.

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.

Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.

I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding power.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.