Power Quotes

"The most powerful force in the world is the force of an informed and engaged citizenry."

"Power operates through the creation of exceptions."

"Power creates the boundaries of the possible."

"The look which the native turns on the settler's town is a look of lust, a look of envy."

"The colonist wants the colonized to be a thing, an animal."

"The indigenous population does not touch bread, meat, or wine."

"The natives see that their intermediate position has been stabilized."

"Violence is a cleansing force which frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction."

"The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism."

"Every reading is an act of power, a claiming of authority over text and meaning."

"Representation shapes reality; it is not simply a reflection of what already exists."

"We are shaped by history but we also have the capacity to shape history."

"Power is not something to be possessed but practiced."

"Institutional analysis reveals the hidden machinery of power."

"Desire creates reality, not the reverse."

"Power is not something you possess but something you become."

"The power of ideology lies in what it leaves unsaid."

"Power reveals itself most clearly in what it forbids us to think."

"Power is the ability to make others believe your fiction."

"Power operates not only through prohibition but through the very production of desire."

"The intellectual's privilege lies not in their ideas but in their access to platforms."

"To claim authority is already to claim a position from which some are excluded."

"To understand power, we must first understand powerlessness."

"Power flows from the willingness of others to obey."

"Power without responsibility becomes tyranny."

"Power operates through representations and interpretations"

"The colonized subject is never simply passive"

"Power operates most effectively when it appears natural and inevitable"

"Power relations are inscribed in the smallest details of representation"

"Power operates through our desires and consensual participation"