Power Quotes

"The individual's only power lies in his capacity to act."

"Mimicry is an act of colonial resistance, a repetition with a difference that subverts authority."

"The fetish object reveals the ambivalence at the heart of colonial desire and disavowal."

"Mimicry reveals that the colonizer's authority is dependent on an impossible perfection of colonial subjects."

"The third world is not a place but a position of enunciation within global hierarchies."

"Power without wisdom is dangerous."

"True power serves others."

"The oppressor is solidified in his position because everything in the world would seem to indicate that his word is law."

"The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors."

"Naming the world transforms the world; naming is the first step of all praxis."

"In a word, the oppressors do not favor humanization; they favor 'order' in which people are repressed."

"The oppressed are not autonomous and cannot govern themselves; they are governed by the oppressors."

"Authority is never absolute; it is always dependent on the recognition and response of the Other."

"We must recognize that power operates not only through overt domination but through the production of knowledge and consent."

"Mimicry reveals the instability of colonial authority by showing how it depends on the repetition and recognition of signs."

"Power without wisdom becomes tyranny."

"Power is most noble when used to lift others."

"The master-slave relationship reveals the nature of consciousness"

"True power comes from within, not from external circumstances."

"Power over others is temporary; power over self is eternal."

"Functionally, the oppressor consciousness tends to transform everything surrounding it into an object of its domination."

"Oppressed people dealing with their oppression become convinced, sometimes, that they are oppressors."

"We must recognize that within the child lies a mighty power which can aid us in building a better world."

"The human hand is the instrument of human intelligence and through it the whole world changes."

"The human hand becomes an instrument of the will, and the will leads toward the infinite."

"Power without wisdom and virtue leads to corruption and harm"

"The task ahead of you is never as great as the Power within you."

"True power lies in the ability to shape the will of others."

"Each individual carries within themselves the potential to transform the world around them."

"There is no greater power than the power of becoming fully and authentically ourselves."