Power Quotes

"Hegemony is never total or complete; it is always contested and subject to challenge."

"The ruling group maintains power not only through coercion but through cultural consent."

"Power is not a thing to be possessed but a relation to be contested."

"Power, real power, belongs to those who control the means of production."

"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely the holder's soul."

"Power without consent is merely force."

"Power over others is corrupt; power with others is sacred"

"The pen is mightier than the sword, yet the sword protects the pen."

"Tyranny fears the written word more than the drawn sword."

"Power is not something that is acquired, seized, or shared, something that one holds on to or allows to slip away. Power is exercised from innumerable points, in the interplay of nonegalitarian and mobile relations."

"Confession is a form of power; by speaking our secrets, we submit ourselves to judgment."

"Power corrupts, but voluntary service ennobles the human spirit."

"The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces."

"The bourgeoisie has created a world after its own image."

"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the means of production."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"The bourgeoisie produces a world after its own image in all spheres of activity."

"The simplest definition of monopoly is the complete command of a commodity market."

"The instruments of production owned by the capitalist become productive forces."

"The concentration of capital increases as the number of capitalists decreases."

"In the moment of danger, all classes unite against their common enemy."

"The power of thought is only realized through collective action."

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

"Power must be distributed among all people equally."

"Power without accountability becomes tyranny and oppression."

"The apparatus of state is also a reinforcement of domination by one group over others."

"Hegemony is achieved not through force alone but through the construction of consent."

"Language is never neutral; it always carries ideological weight and power."

"Every dominant ideology must be contested not just politically but culturally and philosophically."

"The dominant system maintains itself not merely through repression but through the manufacture of consent."